Less Real Quotes

#1. Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.

Ben Shapiro

#2. Lieux de memoire ... 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire, settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are lieux de memoire? [They] are ... vestiges ... the rituals of a ritual-less society.

Tony Judt

#3. I think my songwriting has developed over the years. As I get older, I have become less afraid to share real experiences.

Rayvon Owen

#4. A real stormtrooper is the extension of the First Order, of Supreme Leader Snoke's will, nothing less.

Greg Rucka

#5. Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

George Gilder

#6. Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

Edgar Friedenberg

#7. As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

Frances O'Grady

#8. Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

John Edgar Wideman

#9. It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

John Neff

#10. Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

William Glasser

#11. We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.

David Whyte

#12. I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.

Rachel Miner

#13. There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. When you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

Philippa Gregory

#15. Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.

Jim Horning

#16. Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

Jack Welch

#17. In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Jessica Savitch

#18. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

Crystal Woods

#19. I'm just saying it doesn't always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn't make them less real.

Kendare Blake

#20. The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.

Marcel Proust

#21. God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.

Frederick Lenz

#23. What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective real.

Thomas Hardy

#24. less small talk
and more real talk.

Nikki Rowe

#25. [...] our memories are getting more beautiful and less real every day.

Zadie Smith

#26. Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy.

Deepak Chopra

#27. I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

Benjamin Franklin

#28. Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.

Raymond Carver

#29. The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

Benjamin Cardozo

#30. It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.

Bill Gross

#31. Perhaps it is less important that a teacher cover the allotted amount of the curriculum, or use the most approved audio-visual devices, than that he be congruent, real, in his relation to his students.

Carl R. Rogers

#32. The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#33. From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.

Jim Norton

#34. The evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that however isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue;

Albert Camus

#35. I hope I helped, but I have to tell you this sort of thing is a lot more exciting, and a lot less emotionally wearing, in a book than it is in real life." "You got that right.

J.D. Robb

#36. The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires.

Melanie Brown

#37. Less is more. If I don't have to wear make-up, I don't. If there's no real reason to have my hair 'done', I leave it. To keep it looking healthy, I ensure its properly shampooed and conditioned every time I wash it.

Cat Deeley

#38. Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect.

Neale Donald Walsch

#39. Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.

John Loengard

#40. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#41. A plant bred in a laboratory is no more or less "real" than a baby born through in vitro fertilization. The traits matter, not the process.

Michael Specter

#42. People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

Albert Camus

#43. Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.

Doug Scott

#44. True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you're already learning how to make it less harmful.

Martha Beck

#45. Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest.

Charles Derber

#46. I climbed the ditch, walked out into the middle of the prayer stones and stared across to the monks' island. If you stood there and thought you heard mass when it wasn't being sung, how would it be different to standing there when it was being sung? Would the mass in your head be any less real?

Jane Rogers

#47. I, for one, am not nearly as engaged when I'm looking at something that's been completely drawn up on a computer that replaces anything that's in real time and real space. It just engages me all the less, rather than all the more.

Ron Perlman

#48. Now we've a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#49. The past, I mean the real past, matters less than we pretend.

John Banville

#50. The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#51. She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Louisa May Alcott

#52. I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

Linus Torvalds

#53. These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.

Anthony Trollope

#54. Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

Kathy Gottberg

#55. Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Jonathan Edwards

#56. The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.

Frederick Buechner

#57. Sometimes there's other reason for helping, other than personal gain or benefit," added Sam softly. "Friendship, companionship, trust and love are not confined to light alone ... they are harder won, fewer seen ... but no less real.

Eve Forward

#58. Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

Aldo Leopold

#59. The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#60. A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

Lindsay Duncan

#61. What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

E.H. Gombrich

#62. It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#63. Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

Heather James

#64. If you can have faith in your real self, you'll suffer less. Be bold about who you really are.

Ann Curry

#65. The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

Ivan Reitman

#66. You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

Martin Parr

#67. Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

Blaise Pascal

#68. 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'

Vicki Pettersson

#69. 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

B.J. Novak

#70. Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

Robert E. Howard

#71. President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

Ken Salazar

#72. The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived.

Evelyn Underhill

#73. I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

Ronald Frame

#74. I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

Molly Ivins

#75. Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

Mike Lowry

#76. And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

Chuck Palahniuk

#77. I loved books like people; I liked real people less.

Lauren Groff

#78. People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

Neil Kinnock

#79. Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they're capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they're capable of so much less.

Amethyst Marie

#80. I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

Esther Dyson

#81. 66/ 'Two roads diverge in a yellow wood,' I think. It didn't ultimately matter which one you took; that was the real point of Frost's poem. The roads were pretty much the same. That stuff about the one less traveled making all the difference was bullshit.

Kim Addonizio

#82. Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity!

Albert Camus

#83. The more time we spend interconnected via a myriad of devices, the less time we have left to develop true friendships in the real world.

Alex Morritt

#84. Empowered Women 101: A man doesn't have to put down other women to prove his love for you. In fact, why would you teach him to be less than Christlike, in order to show his devotion? Real women don't need the people in their life to lower others, in order to raise them up.

Shannon L. Alder

#85. As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation.

Fennel Hudson

#86. Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

Jack Welch

#87. Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.

Craig Finn

#88. This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You'd think it would be less painful this way.

Cat Clarke

#89. We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

Victor Hugo

#90. A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.

Rajneesh

#91. Believing in love isn't like believing in flying reindeer. It's like believing in rain. Or summer. Or Christmas. Love is real and steady and absolutely essential to any kind of life. Not believing in it doesn't make it any less so.

Sabrina Jeffries

#92. Real victory of life lies in you being involved in more conversations and less monologues.

Ashutosh Gupta

#93. That's the weirdest thing, by the way. That every person you come across lays down in a bed, under the covers, and closes their eyes at night. Cops, teachers, parents, hot girls, pro ballers, everybody. For some reason it makes people seem so much less real when I look at them.

Matt De La Pena

#94. There are many sorts of love," she counsels me. "And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream.

Philippa Gregory

#95. Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today's newspaper.

Jorge Luis Borges

#96. There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or even fully understood. Others still are entirely imaginary
like a red tree growing suddenly in a room
although this does not make them any less real.

Shaun Tan

#97. Religious strife where Christians and Muslims meet is real, and grim, but the long history of everyday encounter, of believers of different kinds shouldering all things together, even as they follow different faiths, is no less real.

Eliza Griswold

#98. A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

Charles Dickens

#99. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.

Donald Miller

#100. The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

Steven Pressfield