#realistic

What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty that you forget how ugly life is for everyone else? Who wouldn’t want that? Who wouldn’t be willing to fight for it? What the alumni did to get there – lie, cheat, steal, kill – I’m sure they’d all say it was worth it. And I bet they sleep soundly because they know that their nameless, faceless victims would have done the same thing. ↗

— Kirsten Miller

#realistic #beauty

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#bad #loaded #me #realistic #uses

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#afford #cost #end #millions #put

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#means #something #unrealistic #usually #won

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack #barack obama #biggest #challenge #does

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. ↗

— Teri Garr

#accept #error #find #goals #going

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious. ↗

— Amy Lee

#hilarious #i #i love #know #love

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #lot #mainstream #only #population

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#blacks #cherish #constitution #corrective #decency

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