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Quotes About Real

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
~ Oscar Robertson
Though this marriage is a sham, what we share tonight will be real, my lady. I said I'd treat you wi' the same respect I'd show my own true bride, and I meant it. I'd no' be able to call myself a Scotsman if I let you walk across this threshold.
~ Pamela Clare
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
~ Pat Brown
Some have argued that because of its atypicality, Twilight Struggle is not a "real" wargame, but we will leave such jesuitical distinctions to the message boards.
~ Unknown
The distress and discord that permeate the lives of millions are clear messages meant to tell us something. Just as a searing physical pain says something is wrong, so, too, does the psychic pain that floats through the world. Whatever form it takes, it is a sign that people have forgotten what is real and what is not, what is pretend and what is not, who they are and who they are not.
~ Unknown
Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.
~ Patrick Carman
I don't think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it's not a little uncomfortable, then it's not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway
~ Patrick Lencioni
If you can't pray it away, it's not a real problem.
~ Patrick Ness
It was one of those perfect Autumn days so common in stories and rare in the real world.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Bitter." "That's how you know it's real medicine," I said. "If it tasted good it would be candy." "Isn't that the way of the world?" she said. "We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Si te parece que me voy por las ramas, si te parece que divago, recuerda que las historias reales pocas veces toman el camino más recto.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
That's how you know it's real medicine," I said. "If it tasted good it would be candy.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
era una tortura, no se acababa nunca el tiempo en que el mundo real le abrasaba la piel.
~ Patrick Süskind
I know that you are concerned about the fate of the driver, he said, but it's out of our hands. He placed us in real jeopardy and in the end my concern was for you. —Oh, I wasn't afraid. —Yes, he said, that's why I was concerned.
~ Patti Smith
The act of writing in real time in order to deflect, escape, or slow it down is obviously futile yet not entirely fruitless.
~ Patti Smith
There was no time real or otherwise at the Arcade and we could sit for hours with a handful of stragglers, spinning words or content within commiserating silence.
~ Patti Smith
One cannot approximate truth, add nor take away, for there is no one on earth like the true shepherd and there is nothing in heaven like the suffering of real life.
~ Patti Smith
In the beginning was real time. A woman enters a garden that is bursting with color. She has no memory, only a burgeoning curiosity. She approaches the man. He is not curious. He stands before a tree.
~ Patti Smith
Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.
~ Unknown
As long as we avoided the real subject, the spell could not be broken. We both slipped naturally into this kind of banter, and it became all the more powerful because neither of us abandoned the charade. We knew what we were doing, but at the same time we pretended not to.
~ Paul Auster
have no dramatic tension and would be boring. Finally, a focus on obstacles makes clear how the attraction of aversive fiction connects to what draws us in real life. In our actual lives, we seek out projects with difficulty and struggle, ones that involve surmounting obstacles. This is a large part of what gives life meaning.
~ Paul Bloom
Once, I did hear him, he did wash the world, unseen, nightlong, real. One and unending, annihilated, I'ed. Light was. Salvation
~ Paul Celan
The Christmas story is not intended to teach you a bunch of moral lessons that require no history to be helpful. It's a story that is rooted in real history, real acts of God that are intended to provide for you and me the one thing we desperately need: moral rescue. The Christmas story is about a God of glorious grace on the march, invading human history with the grace of redemption.
~ Paul David Tripp