Real Quotes - page 21

In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high.... the early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B. C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone... (George Sarton)
We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal life. I don't understand why people talk so much about the way we dress up, how we walk, what we eat, and every little detail of ours. Players are the real heroes. Sports have both respect and fame, and I am fortunate enough to be a sportsperson. View quote
Sania Mirza
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational. View quote
Ayn Rand
Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay. View quote
Lucy Lawless
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. View quote
Banksy
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access. View quote
Banksy
[T]he intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and ... most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood. View quote
Madison Grant
The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real. View quote
Edward Snowden
Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory. View quote
David Lloyd George
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. (Louis V. Gerstner)
Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. So think real careful about where this is coming from: Have you people ever considered talking when you've got a problem? View quote
Jim Butcher
Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor. View quote
Michael Marshall Smith
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real. View quote
James Salter
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change. View quote
James Salter
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow. View quote
Luigi Pirandello
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. (Felix Frankfurter)
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,-there, if one must speak out, the real man. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer. View quote
Miriam Makeba
I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child. View quote
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. View quote
Rajneesh