Top 100 Quotes About The Real
#1. When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland.
-'City of Robots',1986
Umberto Eco
#2. Yet Clare's love was doubtless ethereal to a fault, imaginative to impracticability. With these natures, corporeal presence is sometimes less appealing than corporeal absence; the latter creating an ideal presence that conveniently drops the defects of the real.
Thomas Hardy
#3. Sometimes the real bonding happens in conversations about nothing, Don," she said. "Sometimes being willing to talk about nothing shows how much we want to be with each other. And that's a powerful thing.
Donald Miller
#4. Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.
Nirmala Srivastava
#5. After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I had this second thought, I knew this was the real one.
Miranda July
#6. Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#7. Those who speak of man's "free will," and insist upon his inherent power to either accept or reject the Saviour, do but voice their ignorance of the real condition of Adam's fallen children.
Arthur W. Pink
#8. Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Felix Frankfurter
#9. What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.
Lothaire Bluteau
#10. The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#11. Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
Camille Paglia
#12. I think the real question is why do you have a theme song for shaving your vagina? And" - he holds up his hand, pointing at his finger and the band there - "you're my wife. I can do whatever the fuck I want when it comes to you." "Get
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#13. My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#14. My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
Yvette Clarke
#15. Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.
Tom Shales
#16. I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it?
Cassandra Clare
#17. A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional acceptance of itself.
Michael Adzema
#18. The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.
Estelle Getty
#19. Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.
Anne Lamott
#20. Atheists are not the enemy; the real enemy knows Jesus Christ. Satan and all false prophets know very well that Jesus came from heaven, but still reject him. Matthew 10:36
Felix Wantang
#21. In spite of everything, I still didn't miss high school. The real world, even with all its problems, suited me just fine.
Suzanne Supplee
#22. For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
Elise M. Boulding
#23. The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
Karl Kraus
#24. Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.
Jack McDevitt
#25. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton
#26. I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.
Pam Gems
#27. Do people choose the art that inspires them - do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
Alice Hoffman
#28. I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
Diego Maradona
#29. We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.
Alan Casden
#30. Here is where the rhetoric of modern conservatives (and I say this as one of them) fails to meet the real challenges of their biggest constituents. Instead of encouraging engagement, conservatives increasingly foment the kind of detachment that has sapped the ambition of so many of my peers.
J.D. Vance
#31. The essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess
#32. Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.
Sarah Silverman
#33. Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.
Nirmala Srivastava
#34. For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Sylvia Plath
#35. Okay, I should probably mention right here that Brandon used the real word, but this is my story, so I'm cleaning it up a little.
Rachel Hawkins
#36. In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
Robert De Niro
#37. It is said that the senses are great; greater than the senses is the mind; greater than the mind is the intelligence; but what is greater than the intelligence, is the real Self.
Amit Kulshreshtha
#38. There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
William Vickrey
#39. When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
Carl Hiaasen
#40. Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know - the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table - which you, specifically, is the real one?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#42. Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.
Mike Simpson
#43. Possibility, or what we refer to as imagination, is 99% imitation. The real deal is only 1%. The problem is, this 1% is simultaneously referred to as Evil.
Kouhei Kadono
#44. It is mostly when we are very young that we take the greatest delight in the sad songs; those who have felt the real bitterness of sorrow are glad to bury it deeply away, and do not wish it wakened, as sailors' wives love a place best where they cannot hear the sound of the sea.
Angela Brazil
#45. The real achievers are not hungry to achieve their desires just to boost their own egos. They know their duty is to leave the traceable footprints for the world to benefit.
Euginia Herlihy
#46. Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
Friedrich Schiller
#47. If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making love - the real writer wants to touch another person.
Edmund White
#48. The real journey of the Indian aerospace programme, however, had begun with the Rohini Sounding Rocket (RSR) Programme. What is it that distinguishes a sounding rocket from a Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) and from a missile? In fact, they are three
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#49. My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.
Jacques Lacan
#50. False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.
Jerome Groopman
#51. Links have become the suburbs of the real world.
Michael Stipe
#52. There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.
Joe Rohde
#53. I assure you, princess, if you saw the real me, you'd run for cover. (Zarek)
Only if I knew you'd be waiting under that cover for me. (Astrid)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. The real quality of existence lies in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice creams.
Kelly Moore
#55. The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.
Howard Gossage
#56. Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.
Gail Dines
#57. You could spend a lifetime waiting for someone to love the real you but if you don't know who you really are, you are wasting your time.
Keysha Jade
#58. There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.
Jay Leno
#59. My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.
Madonna Ciccone
#60. The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
Ann Landers
#61. To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein
#62. Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
John Ruskin
#63. The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
Bill Watterson
#64. Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
Oscar Wilde
#65. As a gift to His people, the King painted their seven colors in the shape of a bridge in the sky, as a symbol for the real bridge that the people had just crossed.
E. Mellyberry
#66. There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.
Jim Crace
#67. Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.
Isaac Asimov
#68. I hope your dreams have come or will come true. Or you feel inspired to down tools on what you wrongly thought was making you happy and follow the real dream.
Miranda Hart
#69. It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
John Perry Barlow
#70. The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
Brian De Palma
#71. Somewhere along the way, I stopped living in the real world. I expected life to be like my books. I expected happily ever after out of every situation and when I didn't get it, I'd just read another book.
Nick Pageant
#72. Language is the real information highway, the first virtual world. Language is the worldwide web, and everyone is logged on.
Christine Kenneally
#73. The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on there motivation and their connectedness with the real world.
Leonard Sax
#74. Dying is easy. Anyone can throw themselves onto the pyre and rest a happy martyr. Enduring the suffering that comes with sacrifice is the real test.
Jay Kristoff
#75. The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.
Benjamin Jowett
#76. The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
E.F. Schumacher
#77. The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
Peter Morgan
#78. The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.
Edward Abbey
#79. The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.
Stanley Krippner
#80. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.
Michael Dibdin
#81. If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#82. Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.
Brian Stableford
#83. The real cause of hunger is a scarcity of justice, not a scarcity of food. Enough grain is squandered every day in raising American livestock for meat to provide every human being on earth with two loaves of bread.
John Robbins
#85. I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.
Garth Greenwell
#86. The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#87. It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return ...
Carl Jung
#88. The person I think I am is terrified of the person I really am, terrified of what others would think of that person. What would they do to me if they knew the person I really was? Better to be safe! Better to hide the real person, starve the real person, bury the real person!
John Verdon
#89. I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe that nations play-act on a grand scale. I lived in the real.
Don DeLillo
#90. The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
Douglas Coupland
#92. There are humans, and there are ghosts. Vampires are just in a different state of transition. Not part of the human world and not part of the spirit world. We are just caught somewhere in between life and the real death." - Quinn Forrester-Song of the Vampire
K.M. McFarland
#93. When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.
Kevin Shields
#94. The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
Zac Hanson
#95. Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on The Bionic Man and all those Star Trek reruns.
William Gibson
#96. From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
Donna J. Haraway
#97. The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
Carter G. Woodson
#98. Fraternities aren't cool at all, not in the real, rock-and-roll sense, the one I now knew. They have a reputation of housing douchebags that pay for friends and try to seem better than everyone else, and actually smart, cool people shouldn't want to be a part of anything like that.
A.D. Aliwat
#99. Cyberspace or the Abyss of social media has no hiding place that technology cannot find anyone who seeks to hide their identity... so be careful what you say it may hunt and haunt you forever in the real world.
Don A. Holbrook
#100. I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate that box: that seemingly hugely narrowed set of options. I also like the way in which it reminds us that we connect to the real world. That our relationship to the world matters.
Jim Shepard
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