Real Quotes - page 7

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. (Wolfgang Köhler)

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

George Jean Nathan

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

George Strait

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Emily Greene Balch

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Ennio Morricone

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

K. Eric Drexler

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

Elihu Root

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

Ken Hensley

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Laetitia Casta

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Billy Graham

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. (Diana Vreeland)

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

José Martí

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

Germaine Greer

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

Steve Buscemi

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

Sonia Sotomayor

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

Israel Zangwill

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

James Thurber

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

Charlotte Brontë

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised. (Kim Campbell)

It is always the teacher who must learn the most ... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Kim Stanley Robinson

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Ayn Rand

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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