#realistic

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. ↗

— George Lucas

#achievement #always #because #exactly #goals

If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#decision #going #immediately #make #realistic

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#beat #business #country #got #i

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#decisions #fictional #five #i #i think

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. ↗

— William Odom

#bottom #case #command #control #general

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#i #i think #melodrama #myself #opera

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#perks-of-beng-a-wallflower #realistic-fiction #stephen-chbosky #change

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. ↗

— Judy Blume

#realistic #funny

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story. ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#life