Realistic Quotes

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

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

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

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

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

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest py...

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So w...

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best ...

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's la...

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

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

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

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

I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I h...

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

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

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic ...

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

Prospect is often better than possession.

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

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

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

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense...

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is ...

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these...

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

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

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inev...

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects ...

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of los...

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy...

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

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

Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's...

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not...

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That d...

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts ...

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.