Top 100 Short Real Sayings

#1. I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

Stephen Colbert

Short Real Sayings #18210
#2. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

Robert A. Heinlein

Short Real Sayings #23452
#3. Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

Carolyn Brown

Short Real Sayings #39108
#4. Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.

John H. Groberg

Short Real Sayings #58634
#5. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.

Edmund Burke

Short Real Sayings #71715
#6. If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.

Rand Olson

Short Real Sayings #77116
#7. If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

Matt Kindt

Short Real Sayings #85093
#8. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

Charles Hugh Smith

Short Real Sayings #96086
#9. Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Short Real Sayings #97470
#10. Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

Arundhati Roy

Short Real Sayings #104827
#11. It had been so once; it had almost been so once. I could make it so again, I could make it real. It only demanded a short, hard strength for me to become myself again.

James Baldwin

Short Real Sayings #111644
#12. If you've been seeing someone for a short while and the "relationship" winds itself down mutually but not explicitly, no postmortem is necessary. But a real relationship should have a real ending.

Amber Heard

Short Real Sayings #114298
#13. Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Short Real Sayings #125032
#14. Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

Samuel Johnson

Short Real Sayings #126817
#15. A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

Rebecca West

Short Real Sayings #147120
#16. On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

George Stephen

Short Real Sayings #153414
#17. If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Short Real Sayings #158133
#18. Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short Real Sayings #165355
#19. I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.

Sanjay Dutt

Short Real Sayings #171290
#20. I wax poetic
On the beauty of sewers
Real short poem. Done

Rick Riordan

Short Real Sayings #177808
#21. You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

Zadie Smith

Short Real Sayings #199127
#22. Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

Cameron Boyce

Short Real Sayings #215312
#23. Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.

Alesha Dixon

Short Real Sayings #216702
#24. And a real, undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Short Real Sayings #245271
#25. It's interesting how God arranges your schedule. When you're helping someone else, you never run out of time, when you're just interested in helping yourself, time is real short.

Cathy Hughes

Short Real Sayings #282159
#26. My books rustled by like a military of ducks. My mother had never liked my books. She'd said they kept me from real life, by which I think she meant men, or money, or both. Always accusing things of precisely the crimes they hadn't committed.
(From the short story: Once an Empire)

Rivka Galchen

Short Real Sayings #428404
#27. No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

Edmund Phelps

Short Real Sayings #431609
#28. If you're a black Christian, you have a real short memory.

Chris Rock

Short Real Sayings #433447
#29. To cheer myself up, I try to remember the difference between short-term and long-term success. Living a good life and making a real mark on society is a marathon, not a sprint.

Tim Gunn

Short Real Sayings #457067
#30. It is nothing short of a transformed vision of reality that is able to see Christ as more real than the storm, love more real than hatred, meakness more real than pride, long-suffering more real than annoyance, holiness more real than sin. - Discipline

Elisabeth Elliot

Short Real Sayings #457132
#31. Home is where you feel the most like yourself. Home is the thing that makes you happiest during this very short life.
The person who makes you happiest.
I'd never known what a real home was, and now that I'd found it, I was never letting it go.

T.M. Frazier

Short Real Sayings #469848
#32. We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's leaders are all linked up unconsciously with each other and with the masses, man, there's been this unanimous worldwide decision to trash the planet and get on to a new one.

Denis Johnson

Short Real Sayings #476487
#33. Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Shirley Hazzard

Short Real Sayings #487962
#34. You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Billy Bob Thornton

Short Real Sayings #489917
#35. It seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but exceptional, a man not only capable of being a real poet, but a husband and father too.

Andre Dubus III

Short Real Sayings #490618
#36. One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

Jeremy Grantham

Short Real Sayings #503741
#37. Unless you got real short and real fat, you ain't no Booker T!

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Short Real Sayings #505388
#38. But let's be honest. Real good can come from never missing Sunday-morning worship. Real good comes from guarding what you watch. Good can come from guarding your life in these ways. But as a means to or measure of our righteousness? These things will always fall short.

Matt Chandler

Short Real Sayings #515405
#39. Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

J.C. Ryle

Short Real Sayings #537000
#40. What I remember about that experience is that if you went to go see ' Born On The Fourth Of July' and you happened to take a bathroom break real quick or grab some popcorn, you probably missed me. It was short, but it was memorable.

Vivica A. Fox

Short Real Sayings #541262
#41. I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

Columbus Short

Short Real Sayings #544796
#42. Because the best kind of friendships never really ended. They could be put on pause for a short while or divided by space and time. But real friends - the truest ones - always waited and never missed a beat.

Bethany-Kris

Short Real Sayings #559160
#43. A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)

Jonathan Santlofer

Short Real Sayings #560366
#44. What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

Jim Yong Kim

Short Real Sayings #561786
#45. The fact is, real life is long on law and short on grace - the

Tullian Tchividjian

Short Real Sayings #569363
#46. Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths.

Virginia Postrel

Short Real Sayings #576035
#47. The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.

Tom Robbins

Short Real Sayings #590087
#48. Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

John Marmysz

Short Real Sayings #592152
#49. Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.

Will Eisner

Short Real Sayings #663469
#50. You have to accept and agree with this short notice that "having a dream is different from fulfilling a dream". "To have a dream" is just a bargaining process; "fulfilling it" is the real purchasing hour!

Israelmore Ayivor

Short Real Sayings #672536
#51. You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

Elizabeth Edwards

Short Real Sayings #729594
#52. In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

Rachel Kushner

Short Real Sayings #736206
#53. The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

Vince Cable

Short Real Sayings #736566
#54. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions that will last forever. That's real value.

Nicolas Berggruen

Short Real Sayings #790152
#55. I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

Randall Robinson

Short Real Sayings #814491
#56. Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

Gemma Arterton

Short Real Sayings #854207
#57. Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is not a novelization of that story.

Amity Gaige

Short Real Sayings #866389
#58. I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.

James Chanos

Short Real Sayings #916799
#59. Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is.

Anne Graham Lotz

Short Real Sayings #929000
#60. I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

Hannibal Buress

Short Real Sayings #937757
#61. Did you do something crazy, like cut it all off?" "Well," I said, "not all." "But it's real short, right?" "Yeah, but - " "Why did you do it?

Ann M. Martin

Short Real Sayings #937919
#62. In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines of 'search' and into the far more ambitious world of 'experience.' As in - every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.

John Battelle

Short Real Sayings #956102
#63. Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

LHandLG

Short Real Sayings #958888
#64. Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Alan Kay

Short Real Sayings #967184
#65. I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.

Lou Doillon

Short Real Sayings #988660
#66. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories - in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

Gloria Steinem

Short Real Sayings #1013170
#67. It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

Alfred Bester

Short Real Sayings #1028298
#68. The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.

Bill Gross

Short Real Sayings #1039962
#69. A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do.

Jim McGarrah

Short Real Sayings #1058479
#70. In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

Alex Ferguson

Short Real Sayings #1086019
#71. My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

Josh Hartnett

Short Real Sayings #1091698
#72. Do whatever you like because life is short

Sujana

Short Real Sayings #1098068
#73. I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

Patrick Stump

Short Real Sayings #1104194
#74. [Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

Columbus Short

Short Real Sayings #1117509
#75. Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.

Fran Lebowitz

Short Real Sayings #1121556
#76. Art is short for artificial ... so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation ...
In a way it's a lie to get you to see the truth.

Joni Mitchell

Short Real Sayings #1160644
#77. Bid me come, and here I am. Shape my being, and for a short time I can move mortal air in and out of my chest. Ask me to love you, Bright Light, and you make real a dream-giver's deepest desire.

Jennifer Ashley

Short Real Sayings #1178045
#78. I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.

Markus Zusak

Short Real Sayings #1187825
#79. Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

Tucker Carlson

Short Real Sayings #1191632
#80. Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

Barack Obama

Short Real Sayings #1197978
#81. Wafa Wanaka, our elders say. Not only does this mean that death is the ultimate peace, it also means that we are not to speak ill of the dead. Once a person has crossed over to the real of the spirits, he takes his transgressions with him, and we speak only of the good. - 'Something Nice from London

Petina Gappah

Short Real Sayings #1204774
#82. On Earth, we have a continuous influx of young people who are willing to change because they haven't had time to grow hard set in their ways. I suppose there's some optimum. A life long enough for real accomplishment and short enough to make way for youth at a rate that's not too slow.

Isaac Asimov

Short Real Sayings #1211192
#83. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short Real Sayings #1240743
#84. Short-term trading is very time-consuming. That is why even "successful" short-term traders can easily have negative real ROI.

Robert Rolih

Short Real Sayings #1256255
#85. The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Tony Snow

Short Real Sayings #1264424
#86. You can't worry about what other people think you should do. The only way you'll ever be happy or make a real difference is by pursuing the things that motivate you and make you excited to be alive. Life is too short to waste years of it being miserable or asking 'What if?

Dana Bate

Short Real Sayings #1271222
#87. Maybe - after 14 months all I really know is that I don't know anything except that it happened to me, and what I saw during that short time was real. That's

Philip K. Dick

Short Real Sayings #1286244
#88. Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

Ramakrishna

Short Real Sayings #1286268
#89. I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.

Ice Cube

Short Real Sayings #1288622
#90. Real decisions are not something we can pick up without taking time to hunt for them.

Jason E. Royle

Short Real Sayings #1324205
#91. In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

Louisa May Alcott

Short Real Sayings #1357641
#92. A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Short Real Sayings #1358057
#93. I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

Tom Green

Short Real Sayings #1360406
#94. #
# My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

Mark Driscoll

Short Real Sayings #1361733
#95. When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short.

Ernie Els

Short Real Sayings #1422806
#96. Life's too short to waste time living it any other way.

Cora Carmack

Short Real Sayings #1428900
#97. Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

Alan Moore

Short Real Sayings #1447891
#98. Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Our models do have a strong congruence with the world. Our models fall far short of representing the real world fully.

Donella H. Meadows

Short Real Sayings #1461174
#99. In fairy tales, there were always ogres or evil queens or circumstances to be overcome. But in real life, you could give everything you had, everything you were, for someone, and still fall short.

Kit Rocha

Short Real Sayings #1514684
#100. I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.

Peter Jacobson

Short Real Sayings #1515151

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