Real Quotes
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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.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Real love isn't ever ambivalent.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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The only rose without thorns is friendship.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
