Realistic Quotes - Page 2

Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived with them yet.

We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

Positivity can be a negative," I tell her, "if it's used to diminish events that should be cause for concern. Saying 'bad things happen to good people' or "God doesn't give anyone more than they can handle', for instance, isn't necessarily helpful to the person to whom something bad happened--it is much more beneficial to those who wish to be dismissive- who don't really care to think about the why or how or who. And if we cease to see the real human part in events--if instead, we relegate human experiences to some sort of mystical concept like karma, destiny or everything happens for a reason, and consider more realistic views to be negative--then we diminish compassion and empathy, as well as the possibility of positive change.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

He did not think of love as an eternally vigilant, blazing flame, which with its powerful, flickering glow shown into all the peaceful folds of life and in some fantastic way made everything seem bigger and stronger than it was. For him, love was more like the calm, smoldering ember that gives off an even heat from its soft bed of ashes and in the muted twilight tenderly forgets what is distant and makes what is near seem twice as close and twice as intimate.

The point to life is not only to live it, but to enjoy it.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility offeelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.

Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

One's mutual responsibility to any individual determines the role of one person who he is.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

Life is a perilous voyage.

Be such that people get to know of you as you are rather than comparing to others.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your stamina is built on your passion for progress and willingness to excel... When you have a great stamina, you can make great impact even with a low intelligent quotient!

In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is ourselves, which one is not.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

I prefer to be a sad screwed stupid bitch, than a fucking liar, fake and pretender that has to put different masks per day.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

O man ! Do and Do something otherwise thou will have the only deposit of Zilch with thee.

What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future...

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible ask him to dribble a football.

Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

I hope to work support my children and die quietly without pain.

The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

Perfect bliss, from just the thought of you next to me.

When nobody around you seems to measure up it's time to check your yardstick.

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others, for one cannot be a hero without needing someone to save.

Set realistic terms for its implementation