Fernand Leger Quotes

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

I'm always being realistic.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

I've never been an optimist.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

... the president [Barak Obama] has failed to finish the job of securing radiological material in hospitals and industrial facilities, or to crack down on the threats from bioweapons and toxic chemicals. Second, with his revised EPA guidelines on dirty-bomb damage, Obama has taken a tentative but insufficient step toward leveling with the public in a way that deprives terrorists of their ability to spread hysteria. That mirrors what he has tried to do more generally: tentatively steer Americans toward the realistic view that while terrorism is inevitable, it is not an existential or apocalyptic threat—–unless we treat it like the apocalypse.

Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at them in a positive way.

I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.

Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

The only way to earn what you're really worth is to get paid based on your results.

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.

There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.