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Quotes About Actual

I'm as real as they come.
~ Roddy Piper
I live a very real life.
~ Anastacia
I'm following a real event and real people.
~ John Landis
Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.
~ T. S. Eliot
A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.
~ Annie Dillard
The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
~ Warren Spector
You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.
~ Jimmy John Liautaud
All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
~ Saul Bellow
Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
~ Saul Bellow
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
~ Mark Twain
What is more terrifying-- the things we imagine or the things that are real?
~ Suzanne Selfors, Mad Love
The truth is that your opponent, who labels you a racist without evidence, is the actual racist: it is he who waters down the term racism until it is meaningless by labeling any argument with which he disagrees racist.
~ Ben Shapiro
We can think of the difference between math and science in terms of possible worlds. Math is concerned with truths that would hold in any possible world: given these axioms, these theorems will follow. Science is all about discovering the actual world in which we live.
~ Sean Carroll
I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.
~ Ellen Schreiber
they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real.
~ Mary Oliver
He borrowed from others in order to make an impression on others. There's your actual selflessness. It's his ego that he's betrayed and given up. But everybody calls him selfish.
~ Ayn Rand
As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.
~ Steven D. Levitt
thoughts aren't the problem. Problems only develop when thoughts no longer arise from or refer to actual experience. That's when thoughts start ossifying into their own bureaucratic institutions, becoming assumptions and dogma.
~ Ethan Nichtern
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
~ Gustave Courbet
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
~ Bernard Bailyn
I love the Walking Dead, but I dont wanna be an actual prominent character on the show. I just wanna be a zombie.
~ Liana Liberato
Go in fear of abstractions.
~ Ezra Pound
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
~ Lucian Freud
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
~ Sri Aurobindo