Real Quotes
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Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands?
Emil Cioran
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I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.
Zooey Deschanel
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Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
Elayne Boosler
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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
James Earl Jones
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We have yet to see any real evidence of FCC activity in this area despite overtures by us to join us.
Eliot Spitzer
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Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
Marcello Mastroianni
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As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.
Andrea Seigel
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I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.
Dean Smith
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The public is a part of my real life.
Placido Domingo
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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
Maxine Waters
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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
Jim Woodring
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I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.
Elizabeth Warren
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Edmund Burke
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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Jean Nathan
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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?
Tanith Lee
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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
Donald Miller
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L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.
Chris O'Donnell
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It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
L. Ron Hubbard
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There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.
Bulent Ecevit
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I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
J. P. Donleavy
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I was a real East Village girl.
Drea De Matteo
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I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life.
Wilma Mankiller
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The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.
Edward R. Murrow
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Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.
Yasmin Mogahed