Real Things Quotes - Page 14

• The real things are apt to be deviant.

  Osamu Dazai

  Real, Deviants

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Dream, Real, Simple

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Truth, Real, Gone

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• Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

  Billy Graham

  Real, People, Religion

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Heart, Emotional

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• As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.

  Chael Sonnen

  Regret, Real, Athlete

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• Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

  Jimmy Connors

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  "Tennis champion Jimmy Connors". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Clever, Real, Stupid

  "Equal Time" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 23, 2005.

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• I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.

  Trina Robbins

  Art, Real, Teaching

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and expect any in return, and you will be happy and contented.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Kindness, Real, Expectations

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.11, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

  Aristotle

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

  Amanda Palmer

  Real, Kind, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of my obsessions in life is that we have the tools to manufacture moments and real things, but it's overwhelming and there's a lot of fear and you think maybe you'll be rejected or embarrassed or somehow hurt emotionally. So we don't do the things we know we can do, but we can make people feel better and make people happier with compliments or just being positive and that sort of thing and sending it their way.

  Pete Holmes

  Hurt, Real, Feel Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

  Ellen Kushner

  Real, Dark, Roots

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• I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Real, Rocks, People

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• We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

  Hesiod

  Truth, Real, Speak

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• I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Tired, Talking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Real, Myth

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• Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Real

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.14, Penguin

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• There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

  Adam Brody

  Real, Talking, Care

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• In the end countries, like people, are alone, and the real things that must be done have to be done without help.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Country, Real, People

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

  Jan Phillips

  Sweet, Real, Joy

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• Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

  Agatha Christie

  Real, Stage Performance, Perfection

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Crooked House”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

  Muriel Spark

  Sex, Real, Mind

  Muriel Spark (1967). “The Mandelbaum Gate”

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• This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.75, Northwestern University Press

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