Real Quotes - page 5

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. View quote
Douglas Coupland
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. View quote
George Orwell
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat. View quote
Anthony Stewart Head
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. View quote
Alan Watts
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. View quote
Jane Austen
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. (David Hume)
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. View quote
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. View quote
Art Garfunkel
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. View quote
Harold Pinter
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. View quote
Douglas Adams
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. View quote
Robert Crumb
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. View quote
Hesiod
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. View quote
Jim Morrison
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. (Arthur C. Clarke)
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. View quote
Anna Quindlen
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves. View quote
Learned Hand
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball. View quote
Joseph Joubert