Quotes About Real

For when the world one knew began to crumble away bit by bit, when not only your memories but the memories that others might have of you grew dim with time and distance, when, indeed, you began to fade into a nothingness in the minds of the owls that you loved best, well, perhaps that was when legends could become real.

But my thought was, of course I must be magnificent .... I must sparkle. I must always sparkle whether I laugh or cry. I must dazzle and then no one will see the real me. I shall just be this bright and shining thing.

Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

Because the privacy of my nightmare had been of my own designing, no one close to me had any real idea of the psychological company I had been keeping.

I opened my eyes and when I did, he was right there, and all I could see was his eyes, those amazing amber eyes that I could fall into and-- I stumbled back. "You're not real." "Mmm, actually, I am. Not a ghost." He brushed his hand over the tops of the tall grasses, making them sway. "Not a zombie either, or I'd smell even worse by now.

The idea was that the brain is part of nature, nature alone is real, so consciousness can be found in an empirical study of the brain—this is a horrible reduction to monological surfaces.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

It is not the ought -ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is -ness!

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

The only people who stay the same are minuscule talents who earn their livings writing about other people who are busy living real lives