Real Quotes - page 11

Who is to say what is real and what is not? «Real» is a distinction of a naïve mind, I think. We're getting beyond that. (Terence McKenna)
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. View quote
John Steinbeck
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. View quote
Doris Lessing
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. View quote
Penn Jillette
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. View quote
William Blake
There is no doubt that the real destroyer of the liberties of any people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and largess. View quote
Plutarch
It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. View quote
Hugo Weaving
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. (Ben Elton)
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. View quote
Swami Sivananda
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. View quote
Confucius
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. View quote
Nick Bostrom
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely. View quote
Nicole Krauss
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing. View quote
André Gide
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. (Victor Hugo)
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? View quote
Havelock Ellis
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism. View quote
Wim Wenders