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Quotes About Real

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.
~ Pat Buchanan
You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.
~ Will Ferrell
Love is real. In every single moment, there are only two choices: love or fear. I can tell you from experience that love is exponentially more powerful. And a hell of a lot more fun.
~ Mark Deklin
May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest
~ Charles Spurgeon
They think they're at a petting zoo, or in a Disney movie. They've never learned the real rules, so they think they can just make up their own. This is called anthropomorphizing.
~ Max Brooks
It's fear, dude, just fear and you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.
~ Max Brooks
Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the real things happen. They
~ May Sarton
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. Other than that they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was included the hostility of the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for and the ragged against the well dressed. I remember never believing that whites were really real.
~ Maya Angelou
The rope at my back and the pad on the floor, the smack of four hammers, new bones in my jaw, the guard in my mouth, my tongue startin' to swell. Fightin' was livin'. Boxin' was real. Fightin' was real. Livin' was … hell.
~ Maya Angelou
Pizza Hut isn't real pizza, I tell them. The way that balloon of Big Bird they fly in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade isn't the real Big Bird.
~ Meg Cabot
You needed the bitter edges of life to make it real, to let you taste what was still sweet.
~ Megan Lindholm
Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.
~ bell hooks
Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were "keeping it real" when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around.
~ bell hooks
We knew that there could no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy, if feminist movement were not fundamentally anti-racist.
~ bell hooks
One cannot love, an image, a dead likeness, it will never give back, the real you, or let you see, the inside heart. When Angels Speak of LOVE-Poem 25
~ bell hooks
también existe la posibilidad más probable de que vayamos a ser testigos de otro gran aumento especulativo en el valor de mercado que no tenga una justificación real en los valores subyacentes.
~ Benjamin Graham
No, fate is difficult. Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have choice?
~ Bernard Cornwell
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.
~ Bertrand Russell
According to Carnap,...... realityis a metaphysical term for which there is no legitimate use....... We are interested in other people's loves and hates, pleasures and pains, because we are firmly persuaded that they are as real as our own. We mean something we say this.
~ Bertrand Russell
to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the residue which is called philosophy.
~ Bertrand Russell
God stated unapologetically that conditions exist under which "you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do." But the only way we are going to impact our generation is to prove that our faith in Christ is real and that it works.
~ Beth Moore