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Quotes About Real

How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
~ Ray Bradbury
The simple old sailor, with his talk of chains and purchases, made me forget the jungle and the pilgrims in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakably real. Such a book being there was wonderful enough; but still more astounding were the notes penciled in the margin, and plainly referring to the text. I couldn't believe my eyes! They were in cipher! Yes, it looked like cipher.
~ Joseph Conrad
This stuff is better than cotton candy, really it is. It's made out of real cotton. Yossarian, you've got to help me make the men eat it. Egyptian cotton is the finest cotton in the world.
~ Joseph Heller
Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind, and that will suffice.
~ Joseph Murphy
How do I say it? In this language there are no words for how the real world collapses. I could say it in my own and the sacred mounds would come into focus, but I couldn't take it in this dingy envelope. So I look at the stars in this strange city, frozen to the back of the sky, the only promises that ever make sense.
~ Joy Harjo
The surreal is as integral a part of our lives as the 'real,' although one might argue that, since the unconscious underlies consciousness, and we are continuously bombarded by images, moods, and memories from that uncharitable terrain, it is in fact more primary than the 'real.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Love doesn't come and go when it's real. Love is supposed to be constant.
~ Joyce Maynard
The humble are they that move about the world with the lure of the real in their hearts.
~ Wallace Stevens
Can things whose end is always dust and disappointment be the real goods which our souls require?
~ Waller R. Newell
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
~ Walt Kelly
To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.
~ Walter Brueggemann
To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ. As human persons, body and soul, are incorporated into the performance of Christ's corpus verum, they resist the state's ability to define what is real through the mechanism of torture.22
~ Walter Brueggemann
In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a pseudo-environment that he thinks wise or desirable. For
~ Walter Lippmann
No," Ray says. "He's getting paid in magic beans. Of course he's getting real money!
~ Wendy Mass
Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
~ Werner Herzog
Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Human beings have invented the concept of "risk" to help them understand and cope with the dangers and uncertainties of life. Although these dangers are real, there is no such thing as "real risk" or "objective risk.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The essential feature of this internal signal is that the sense of coherence is part of the experience of judgment. It is not contingent on a real outcome. As a result, the internal signal is just as available for nonverifiable judgments as it is for real, verifiable ones. This explains why making a judgment about a fictitious character like Gambardi feels very much the same as does making a judgment about the real world.
~ Daniel Kahneman
That language is demonstrably stereotypical -- in either the Bible or the modern Mediterranean cultures -- is not the same thing as saying that a language is demonstrably fraudulent -- or that it is language that is not reacting to real trauma. (p. 103)
~ Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
~ Danny Glover
en los aeropuertos se ven besos más sinceros que en las bodas. Y los muros de los hospitales han escuchado oraciones más reales que las iglesias.
~ Dante Gebel
A divorce between these texts and Jesus means we see only a shadow of the real Jesus or even a distortion of him.
~ Darrell L. Bock
take what you can from your dreams Make them real as anything It takes the work out of the courage
~ Dave Matthews Band
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
~ Dave Parnas