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Quotes About Real

I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me
~ Gene Wolfe
Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real — all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
~ Georg Brandes
These new times require new strategies for making faith real in people's lives. Nothing drives home the need for such innovation as attempting to connect (or reconnect) with the de-churched. Their dismissal of Christian churches is not mean-spirited; it simply reflects the firsthand experiences that led them to conclude churches are ill-equipped to support the flourishing life they hope for.
~ George Barna
Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Now that the first impact of his impossible face had worn off, she saw a network of small scars near his left eye. He was real, all right. He bled and scarred just like the rest, and that meant he wouldn't find bullets in his chest amusing.
~ Ilona Andrews
We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.
~ Iris Murdoch
Literature must always represent a battle between real people and images'.
~ Iris Murdoch
You understand nothing of—the horror—no wonder you can't write real books—you don't see—the horror—
~ Iris Murdoch
It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's goat shite fir blood.
~ Irvine Welsh
No man of real competence could have avoided a dash of uncertainty at a job like that.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ahora era precisamente aquel mundo frío, gris y miserable que le había parecido en un principio, pero su gente estaba llena de calor y vida. Era gente real, sólida. Solaria, Aurora, los otros mundos espaciales que había visitado o contemplado en hipervisión, parecían llenos de gente insustancial, «gaseosa». Esa era la palabra. «Gaseosos.»
~ Isaac Asimov
Se extendió el documento pertinente, que lo ponía a salvo de cualquier acusación en el futuro, y así fue como se nombró al primer gobernador de Chile por decisión popular y no por cédula real.
~ Isabel Allende
We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
~ John Cornyn
We've done a zombie episode - only one - and the way we look at it as is we understand that there probably aren't zombies out there for real, but there's a lot of interesting stuff we can test about them. We've tested how bodies of zombies pressing against a gate, would they push it through and things like that.
~ Jamie Hyneman
I actually have a very real, irrational fear of zombies.
~ Jessica De Gouw
People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
~ Ma Jun
There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.
~ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Let's toast a real wine expert - someone who knows a good rose goes best with bologna sandwiches.
~ Elmer Pasta
Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste, a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
~ Joseph H. Odell
Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
~ Ivy ComptonBurnett