#realist

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ↗

— H. C. Bailey

#miracles #must #order #realist #you

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#chicago #goes #person #protection #realistic

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#complex #cynical #exploitation #extreme #global

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#any #down #estimate #europe #magnitude

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#country #illegal #illegal immigration #immigration #immigration policy

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#language #leader #must #practical #realist

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. ↗

— Julien Benda

#beautiful #europe #honors #ill #inform

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#film #more #quality #realistic #tends