Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manuel Puig

I only understand realism.

Michael Jackson

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Richard M. Nixon

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Zane Grey

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

Timothy Noah

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Joe Trippi

He stands for something, he has that idealism and that something that you just don't see in 99.9 percent of today's politicians.

William Hague

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Thomas Carlyle

The actual well seen is ideal.

Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Al Pacino

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Chip Kidd

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

China Chow

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

Darren Shan

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

David Mitchell

If your words're true, they're armed.

David Sarnoff

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

David Puttnam

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

Catherine Booth

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.