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Quotes About Real

I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue.
~ Hafsah Laziaf, Unbreathable
I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.
~ Chris Killip
He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Goldie Hawn has always been a beauty and fashion icon to me. She radiates joy and infuses beauty into everything through her smile and spirit. She is a great example of what real beauty means to me.
~ Erin Heatherton
The generic notion of culture is coined, therefore, in order to overcome the persistent philosophical opposition between the spiritual and the real, thought and matter, body and mind. The only necessary and irreplaceable component of the concept is the process of structuring, together with its objectified results--man-made structures.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Practice is the interest, the love, the drive, the tendency, the movement, to be as authentic as possible, to be as real as possible.
~ A. H. Almaas
Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of "Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.
~ A.H. Almaas
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
~ Abraham Lincoln
ask always what's the best real possibility, not what's the ultimate ideal imagining.
~ Adam Gopnik
Accepting the eventual certainty of defeat in turn liberates you to take real joy in any small victory, that one good kick.
~ Adam Gopnik
labour, like commodities, may be said to have a real and a nominal price. Its real price may be said to consist in the quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which are given for it; its nominal price, in the quantity of money. The labourer is rich or poor, is well or ill rewarded, in proportion to the real, not to the nominal price of his labour.
~ Adam Smith
Labour therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
~ Adam Smith
Every such regulation introduces some degree of real disorder into the constitution of the state, which it will be difficult afterwards to cure without occasioning another disorder.
~ Adam Smith
El precio real de todas las cosas, lo que cada cosa cuesta realmente a la persona que desea adquirirla, es el esfuezo y la fatiga que su adquisición supone.
~ Adam Smith
In this popular sense, therefore, labour, like commodities, may be said to have a real and a nominal price. Its real price may be said to consist in the quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which are given for it; its nominal price, in the quantity of money. The labourer is rich or poor, is well or ill rewarded, in proportion to the real, not to the nominal price of his labour.
~ Adam Smith
No dreams, these torments, not to me, they're clear, real - the hounds of mother's hate.
~ Aeschylus
I heard the incessant dissolving of silk I felt my heart growing so old in real time
~ Agha Shahid Ali
By overwhelming consensus, our culture locates the primary difficulty of relationships in finding the 'right' person rather than in knowing how to love a real — that is, a necessarily rather unright — human being.
~ Alain de Botton
Using a single word to describe two different things suggests a disregard for the world's real diversity which bears comparison with that shown by the cliché user.
~ Alain de Botton
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
~ Alan Moore
The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.
~ Alan Moore
It is tempting to say, as my friend suggested, that these online identities are caricatures of the real me. It is certainly true that social media can unleash the cruellest side of human nature.
~ Derek Thompson
Once you break your identification with the system, with the authoritarian technics that are driving planetary murder, your language and your actions become very different. Once you identify with the real, living planet, everything changes.
~ Derrick Jensen
We can talk all we want about conservation biology and about the use of science to measure biodiversity,45 but in the real, physical world the real, physical effects of science on real, living nonhumans has been nothing short of atrocious.
~ Derrick Jensen