Top 100 Real But Quotes
#2. Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
Brian Greene
#3. The idea of faith is that you hope He's real. But faith beyond that is that you know He's real. And I now know that God is real.
Adam Makos
#4. "The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
Yann Martel
#6. Prominent scientists have become increasingly convinced that the connection between carbon emissions and rising temperatures is real, but skeptics have whole truckloads of studies to demonstrate the opposite.
David Ignatius
#7. Dipsomancy is very real, but it takes more than just getting hammered to do anything useful.
Michael R. Underwood
#10. This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.
Cammie McGovern
#11. Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.
Ellie Goulding
#12. America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.
David Letterman
#13. Everyone knows that what they see in the movies is not real, but they're still able to let themselves go for two hours and "believe" what they see up on the screen.
Bryan Alvarez
#14. The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Wallace Stevens
#15. (E)very version of time is real, but none of them is complete.
Deepak Chopra
#16. In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
Paul Greengrass
#17. The dangers that exist are real, but only illustrate the fact that men and women need Christ. The suffering and dying of missionaries advance the Kingdom as nothing else could and the blood of the saints has ever been the seed and fuel of gospel advance.
David Sills
#18. When you're not with me, my life seems to stop as though I'm no longer real but merely a shadow. It's as though my soul leaves my body, to be with yours.
Christina Croft
#19. We don't just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out
Sunday Adelaja
#20. Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Each and every day around the world, display wars are taking place as governments, multinational corporations, criminals, and terrorists battle to shape and control what is seen online. What ensues is a real but covert war on reality, one that is meant to blind us to the truth.
Marc Goodman
#22. '90210' was looking at teenagers from a perspective that hadn't really been seen on television, though it had been seen in movies like some John Hughes films. I don't know if you want to say '90210' was real, but what the characters were going through was relatable - in a very glamorous environment.
Darren Star
#23. Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.
Samuel Johnson
#24. Willpower is real, but it needs the right conditions to thrive.
Lindy West
#25. I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.
Larry Sultan
#26. I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
Mary Ellen Mark
#27. I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
Brian K. Vaughan
#28. Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
Abhinavagupta
#29. Nothing feels real, but that's not a problem because she still hopes that at some point she'll wake up and this will all have been a dream.
Lucy Dillon
#30. Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but ...
Richard Bach
#31. The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.
Casper Van Dien
#32. What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.
Wynn Bullock
#33. She drank the glass with breakfast and poured herself another. By the time she'd gotten Sean off to school (second grade) the edges had been taken off her thoughts and the world seemed as it should be: not too real, but real enough.
Dexter Palmer
#34. One who transmuted things from formlessness and shapelessness into that-which-was-not-real, but without which the real would have no meaning
Neil Gaiman
#35. All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#36. What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
Caryl Churchill
#37. People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake ... You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
Errol Morris
#38. It was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn't just real, but was holding a grudge.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#39. Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions.
Robert Wald Sussman
#40. I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.
Tammara Webber
#41. We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#42. 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
#43. I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.
Dolly Parton
#44. Cyrus squinted through the rain at the old man, at the truck, at the crackling Golden Lady. What was going on? None of this seemed real. But it was. The rain on his skin. The soggy waffle and drooping napkins. The smell of gunpowder.
N.D. Wilson
#45. I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
Wallace Stevens
#46. I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end.
Alyson Noel
#47. This - this was our deception, where I wanted to live until the day I died. Where nothing was real but the secrets we whispered in the night.
A.L. Jackson
#48. You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.
Jodi Picoult
#49. Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
D.H. Lawrence
#50. One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#51. I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.
Lindsey Graham
#52. Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.
William C. Dement
#53. There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
Blaise Pascal
#54. Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.
Rockmond Dunbar
#55. We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves.
Anonymous
#56. For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.
Seth Rogen
#58. Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you're sad, be sad, he wanted to say.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#59. Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
Jeff Bridges
#60. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.
Neil Gaiman
#61. The real you is not sad, angry, depressed, ashamed, hurt, bitter or lost. These things are not real. They feel real but they're not. As spiritual beings living a brief human existence, this is not who we are. We are beautiful, radiant, joyful and loving.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#62. If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative'", then I would say, "No, the Gnani Purush Knows the 'relative' as being the 'relative', and therefore He is happy in the relative as well.
Dada Bhagwan
#63. They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut.
Haruki Murakami
#64. Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.
Billy Graham
#65. Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don't be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.
Billy Graham
#66. None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it.
Holly Black
#67. Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for.
Margaret Atwood
#68. Nothing's real ,but all is possible if God is on my side
Michael Jackson
#69. The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
Anna Netrebko
#70. What if ... what if heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a glass of water on a hot day when you're dying of thirst, or when someone's nice to you for no reason, or ...
David Mitchell
#71. Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.
Kurt Angle
#72. YOUR FEAR MAY SEEM REAL BUT THE DANGER IS NOT. YOU'RE SAFE. YOU'RE ALL RIGHT. YOU'RE HAVING A PANIC ATTACK.
Cammie McGovern
#73. The defects of the West are innumerable, its crimes and errors very real. But in the end, let's not forget that we are the only ones to have the possibility of improvement and emancipation that lies in free genius.
Albert Camus
#74. Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.
Sherry Thomas
#75. This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.
Mick Cornett
#76. German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.
Brian Lumley
#77. My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.
Brody Jenner
#78. Reincarnation?"
He shrugged. "I've never seen any evidence that it's real. But I've never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here - and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.
Patricia Briggs
#79. A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him.
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]
Rex Stout
#80. The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
Chris Martin
#81. I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not ... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
Richard Foreman
#82. The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.
Alexander Calder
#83. In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound
John Grierson
#84. To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#85. Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.
Laurence Overmire
#86. Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
Frida Giannini
#87. We must remember that love is great when it's real but can be a distraction and destroy when it's a bunch of fuckery. Losing it all in the name of love is equivalent to being a sucker for love. A sucker for love is the type of person who would do anything just to feel loved.
Tionna Smalls
#88. The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.
Frederick Lenz
#89. There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you never know with shadows.
Ariel Levy
#90. I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.
Steven Erikson
#91. Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#92. Remind yourself of that when feelings of loneliness and despair come over you. Remember, those are just feelings. They are not real, but God's love is so real that He created you to prove it. It
Nick Vujicic
#93. It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man.
Pope Paul VI
#94. Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody's on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.
Andrew Sharp
#95. Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.
Peter Jackson
#96. Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#97. The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.
Frederick Lenz
#98. Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
Katherine Paterson
#99. Not only are the voices in your head real, but they're accurate as well.
Doug Stanhope
#100. She stays away from his dreams, as if she knows not to go there, because dreams are not real but feel more than real when you're dreaming them. She loves him too much to do that.
Rick Yancey
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