294 Quotes About Realism

I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I’ve grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let’s peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

True hope has no room for delusion.

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

Yes, you may love them to death, but are they willing to love you to life?

Justice is what is good for the stronger.

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.