“Technically, that's a ways off. The realistic thing to do now is to harden the systems we do have, protecting them from a fall of ground or a fire.”
Lewis Wade
“The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchildren.”
Gene Crawford
“It's not realistic that any superintendent could turn around some of these systems within two years.”
Michael Casserly
“Realists see the world as it really is in all of its beauty and all if its horror.”
Terence T. Gorski
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
Walt Disney
“If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.”
Mary McCarthy
