Quotes About Real

the whole world is cause and effect; excluding this, there is no sentient being. from factors which are empty, empty factors originate. those who impute origination to even very subtle entities are unwise and have not seen the meaning of conditioned origination. there is nothing to be denied and nothing to be affirmed. see the real correctly, for he who sees the real correctly is released

I don't want to pretend any more. You make me—want to be real.

Real life was like a plot by Dickens . . .

Here was the Russia she'd loved since childhood, the dark, violent, passionate place where the life of the mind and spirit were as real as the life of the body.

Tom was okay, but we were just pretending to like each other, hoping that eventually, if we pretended hard enough, it would turn real. Maybe it would and maybe it wouldn't. But Jonah was already real. Even Matthew was real, though I'd never seen him. And they made me real.

Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

He is conscious of the past and present injustices, but he knows that real remedies are to be found in contemporary Christian compassion, and not in compensatory justice.

Notice how quickly your feelings change when you know there is a more immediate and real danger than the possibility of falling. How did you do that?

My view of "attraction," then, involves a high degree of overlap of their experience with a real person and the wished-for image in their heads.

I saw that it was plain wrong to evaluate people according to race, for it was clear that culture was the real divider among peoples.

There was no matching real, Jersey-style pizza

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

here is the second large point, to go through The Satanic Verses with the squinting eye of a censor searching for thought crimes, or even to seek to see it in the round, as I have tried to do, is to blind yourself to the real reason why the fatwa against Salman Rushdie became the Dreyfus Affair of our age.

I'd have to be a sociopath to be a traitor. I'm a psychopath. There's a difference, believe me. Psychopaths believe in something, even if that something's not actually real." "Where's

All this terrible self-destructive shit I supposedly did,' he claimed five years ago, 'I only did it because I believed I was in the right and that I was playing the music that real people with real lives wanted to hear. Frankly, throughout my life, I've always felt I was completely innocent. I see myself as a genuine innocent. Always have done.

The people had abducted her, submerged her in the timeless otherworld that was no more real than the underwater palaces of those other abductors, the Sidhe, the unearthly faerie who stole human children, twisted their souls from their bodies, and filled them instead with dark glamour. Nothing was real.

The briefcase was old, worn and comfortable. It spoke of a real person with a real life, real feelings.

She wrapped her hands around the wooden bowel. This was real. This was stuff of life.

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions--crushing them down desperately!

Continuidades de uma tradição nacional de atitudes e comportamento, de uma "mística nacional", reforçadas através da repetição de experiências nacionais similares, constituem poderoso determinante de comportamento real.