Real Quotes - page 4

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? (John Lennon)
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. View quote
Thomas Paine
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. View quote
Umberto Eco
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? View quote
Eugene Kennedy
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. View quote
Susan Sontag
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. View quote
Ezra Pound
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. (Matt Damon)
The only cure for a real hangover is death. View quote
Robert Benchley
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which. View quote
George R. R. Martin
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
The only real influence I've ever had was myself. View quote
Edward Hopper
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. View quote
B. F. Skinner
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. View quote
B. F. Skinner
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. View quote
Colette
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. (Donald Trump)
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature. View quote
James Tiptree, Jr
Dont let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. View quote
Jimmy Carter
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own - even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
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