Realer Than Real Quotes

#1. The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

Jean Paul

#3. This war that has taken so many sons has spared mine. This
age that has burned so many daughters has not burned mine.
I have not let it.

Tahmima Anam

#4. Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Murasaki Shikibu

#5. Rollo the Walker. Who are you?"
"Dak," he answered. It seemed like Rollo expected more. "Uh, Dak the, er ... Cheese Eater?

Carrie Ryan

#6. I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.

Samuel Alito

#7. It is one thing to have a mind that is open. It is quite another to have one so open that the birds can shit into it.

Oliver Bowden

#8. Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail.

Ransom Riggs

#9. A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.

Markus Zusak

#10. We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.

Joe Miller

#11. What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

David Salle

#12. Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.

Savannah Gostlin

#13. Although I have never been 100 lbs overweight, I know the effects of not feeling comfortable in my own skin.

Kim Lyons

#14. The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Gustav Mahler

#15. As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

Bebe Moore Campbell