Real Ones Quotes - Page 3

• My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Monsters, Aliens

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• We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Air, Doors

  Octavio Paz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1990.

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• All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

  John Fowles

  Real, Two, Novelists

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• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Fall, America

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• My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

  Amy Plum

  Mom, Real, Heart

  Amy Plum (2016). “Inside the World of Die for Me”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Trying, Bags

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• When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message to future US president and leaders across the world was clear: do as you're told, or die. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the last true president of the United States. And until the globalists are removed from power, we will never have another real one.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Real, Power

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• Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days, or turn up for political meetings, is that for the vast majority of us those rights have been fulfilled. These days it's in the adverts for mobile phones or foreign holidays where phrases like "Join the Revolution!" and "Cry Freedom!" are bandied about for a generation which knows nothing of their provenance. Just as now we have luxury illnesses to replace real ones, so now we have luxury politics.

  John Diamond

  Real, Holiday, Rights

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• To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Life, Real, Nerd

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.549, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know that others have done the same to us. Stop doing it to yourself and stop doing it to others. Become alert. Just be real. I emphasize reality more than truth. Because truth has been used by the anti-life people so much, it has wrong associations. Be real. If you are real, one thing will start disappearing from your heart, and that is guilt.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Real, Heart

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• Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Real, Practice

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

  Fernando Botero

  Beauty, Beautiful, Real

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• No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.

  Jean Helion

  Real, Feelings, Doubt

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• We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Real, Pride, Worry

  Jeffrey Kluger (2007). “Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world”

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• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Disappointment, Real, Wish

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• Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false morality that vanishes as soon as the police go on strike or the spy camera is switched off, whether the spy camera is a real one monitored in the police station or an imaginary one in heaven.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Thoughtful, People

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Understanding, Imaginary

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Teacher, Art

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• Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wall, Real, Reflection

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.304

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Real, Smart

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• The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

  Mat Johnson

  Real, Problem, Sociopath

  Mat Johnson (2015). “Loving Day: A Novel”, p.6, Spiegel & Grau

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• There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

  Benjamin

  Real, Evil, Enough

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• Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Kings, Real, Pride

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

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• We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.

  Andre Maurois

  Real, Found, Console

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Real, Practice

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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