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. I fail too much to be good as a real person, being anonymous makes me less real.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#3. 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

#4. The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

William James

#5. There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#6. While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is certainly no less real than its obligation to pay interest on its Treasury bonds.

Laurence Kotlikoff

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#10. Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

Dodie Smith

#11. Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote.

Seamus Heaney

#12. In the back of my mind, I'm composing a tweet to make this funny somehow. Hashtag #awkwardparentmoments. It would probably trend on Twitter. I want to laugh at this to make the whole situation less real.

Janet Gurtler

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

Zadie Smith

#14. 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

#15. With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

John Burnside

#16. Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

Mary Jo Weaver

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

Benjamin Cardozo

#19. When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'

Jane Lindskold

#20. Would I be any less real if I lived only in your mind?

Rich Shapero

#21. To us, reality is just raw footage: Unclear. Desultory. Too shocking or not quite shocking enough. It's ironic that making something more real involves making it less real, but Gideon always says people don't want real. They want the idea of real, which involves production.

Paula Stokes

#22. 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

#23. It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.

Keith Donohue

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

John Darnielle

#27. All my life had been dominated by a sign, often invisible but no less real for that, which said: 'Reserved for Europeans Only.'

Peter Abrahams

#28. People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn't make the experience any less real.

James Rozoff

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Martin Parr

#32. And perhaps the humans did create their God. But does that make him less real? Take this arch. They created it. Now it exists.

Helene Wecker

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

Blaise Pascal

#34. Maybe your definition of hardship is different than mine, but it makes mine no less real.

Mysti Parker

#35. Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world certainly exist - who is to say the reality of the dream is not real?

Frederick Lenz

#36. The days we shared I alone would remember now.
I suddenly felt less real.

Robin Hobb

#37. It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important ... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves ...

Bertrand Russell

#38. I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

John Green

#39. 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

#40. Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it easier than our forefathers, we have more uneasiness. Though we have less real cause for anxiety than our predecessors, we are inwardly more anxious.

Billy Graham

#41. Lastly (4) in each of his infinite bodies there would be already present infinite flesh and blood and brain - having a distinct existence, however, from one another, and no less real than the infinite bodies, and each infinite: which is contrary to reason.

Aristotle.

#42. None of this is any less real because I am gone. Death doesn't matter. It makes no difference to life. We will always remain what we were to one another.

Nina George

#43. Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#44. Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

Oscar Wilde

#45. I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people
unidentified but no less real
are threatening life as we know it, and in fact, may be bent on unraveling the very fabric of our existence.

Christopher Moore

#46. Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.

Yasmin Mogahed

#47. 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. The

Donald Miller

#48. Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#49. [T]here is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reality that seems less real than the dream-state that has been left behind. I was such a child.

Anne Fadiman

#50. Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

Cormac McCarthy

#51. Reality can have metaphorical content; that does not make it less real.

Salman Rushdie

#52. The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.

John Green

#53. 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

#54. something to be attained by special virtuous techniques, the less real it becomes. As it becomes less real, it recedes further into the distance of abstraction, futurity, unattainability. The

Thomas Merton

#55. I consider a dream like I consider a shadow," answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. "A shadow is real, but it's less real than a rock. A dream is real - if it weren't, it wouldn't be a dream - but less real than a thing. That's what being real is like.

Alvaro De Campos

#56. 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

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

Jorge Luis Borges

#58. 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

#59. The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#60. Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.

Dana Gioia

#61. Just because it's the first time doesn't make it less real, does it? Even the universe has a beginning.

Nicola Yoon

#62. Less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

Dean Koontz

#63. 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

#64. The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

Bertrand Russell

#65. Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

Brad Bird

#66. 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

#67. It always seemed somehow less real here ... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.

Garth Nix

#68. 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

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

Rayvon Owen

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

Greg Rucka

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

George Gilder

#72. 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

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

John Edgar Wideman

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

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

Jessica Savitch

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

Crystal Woods

#83. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#85. 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

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

Thomas Hardy

#87. less small talk
and more real talk.

Nikki Rowe

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. 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