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Quotes About Real

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult wherein everything speaks except our mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
~ Victor Hugo
In these aspirations, much more than in deliberate, rational coordinated ideas, is the real character of a man to be found. Our chimeras are the things which the most resemble us. Each
~ Victor Hugo
Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. —The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams
~ Kristin Hannah
It's open to the public, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ sometimes it's better to study politics from a nice, safe historical perspective. The real thing can be pretty ugly.
~ Kristin Hannah
And the American people…" His voice faded for a moment. "They faint if someone uses insensitive language in their presence and half of them couldn't run up a set of stairs if you put a gun to their heads. What'll happen if the real shit hits the fan?
~ Kyle Mills
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
Finally, he backs off and looks at me, smiling. "First time you've been kissed by a man, Puss? A real man?" I come back to my senses and says, breathlessly, "Put out the fire, Jared." "If you mean the fire down below, Jacky, that will never go out...," he says, coming for me again. "The fire on the desk, you fool!
~ L. A. Meyer
These are professional mamas, sisters, and girlfriends. In other words, these are real women with real strength and sensuality
~ L. Divine
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.
~ la rochefoucauld iv
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
~ Leon Bloy
We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of terror is not to kill people but to kill thought; to so demoralize a society that it implodes from within.
~ lahr john
The story goes like this," he said. "We were having dinner together, you and I. As we do from time to time. It was grimgrouse. Over-spiced. You killed the cook for that. Temper." He added, as an instructive side, "You know, in a story, it's the details like that that make it seem real. Anyway, you for a bone stuck in your mustache. Did I mention you has a mustache?
~ Laini Taylor
When she lowered her hands, her reflection shimmered up at her, pale and golden in contrast with the bronzed, dark-haired man next to her. Seeing herself beside him made the nightmarish situation she was in seem all the more real. She turned to look at him, and at the same instant he looked at her. For several heartbeats they simply studied one another. "Even the water sings our song." He sighed and rose to his knees, glancing back down at their shimmering images.
~ Catherine Anderson
Las personas reales solo proporcionan modelos al novelista porque su imaginario ya ha creado los moldes en los que los introducirá.
~ Catherine Millet
All the boundaries of the world disappeared after a good snow. Nathan had always noticed that. The seemingly sturdy, dependable dividing lines between his yard and his neighbor's yard, or the sidewalk and the street, simply disappeared. Erased by white. As if the world were advising him not to put too much faith in such markings. That perhaps these lines had never been entirely real to begin with.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
God becomes increasingly real to children as they have opportunity to participate with us in the living of our faith and in the worship of God spontaneously in the flow of everyday life and in the gatherings of the faith community.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
I've always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When it was all done and said and shot and ignited and vaporized and swept up and put away and both sincerely and insincerely apologized for, everyone left standing knew that the galaxy could not bear a second go at this sort of thing. Something had to be done. Something mad and real and bright.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
alive and warm and real and in gross violation of her HOA contract.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Female is real, and it's sex, and femininity is unreal, and it's gender.
~ Germaine Greer
What does it mean to love unconditionally? Are you obligated to love someone when you are experiencing their behavior as emotionally abusive? Is emotional abuse real if the cause is grief or a mental health issue? Can something be a mental health issue and potentially true at the same time? Was
~ Gina Frangello
Baldwin says that suffering "may be the only equality we have," and that all pain is real and not easily quantified or measured.
~ Gina Frangello