Real Things Quotes - Page 9

• What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about the real thing is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

  Douglas Lain

  Memories, Real, Ideas

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• I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

  Aviv Nevo

  Real, Done, Married

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• The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

  Mark Twain

  Country, Real, Watches

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Running, Real, Giving

  Richard Paul Evans (1997). “The Letter”

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• Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

  Walt Kelly

  Dog, Real, Looks

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• The trouble is that the risks that are being hedged very well by new financial securities are financial risks. And it appears to me that the real things you want to hedge are real risks, for example, risks in innovation. The fact is that you'd like companies to be able to take bigger chances. Presumably one obstacle to successful R&D, particularly when the costs are large, are the risks involved.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Real, Successful, Risk

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Real, World, Diagrams

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• I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Real, Sky, Want

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• When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without the second part the first part is not complete. The Buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. They must be real things that have real effects on life. Whenever I say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," I hear "the Buddha takes refuge in me."

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Understanding, And Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place - people talk about gerrymandering and the money that's in politics, this is a real thing, a real effect - and it's hard for climate change-denying legislators to get voted out. But I predict it will happen.

  Bill Nye

  Real, People, Climate

  "Bill Nye tackles climate change, solutions in new book Unstoppable". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. November 11, 2015.

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• When I remixed U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing," that was a big moment and turning point for me. One of my remixes became "the big remix" for them and then I went on tour and was living on the road with them for six months.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Real, Months, Six

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

  Robert Evans

  Real, Want, Hamilton

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• Today's aikido is so dimensionless. It's hollow, empty on the inside. People try to reach the highest levels without even paying their dues. That's why it seems so much like a dance these days. You have to master the very basics solidly, with your body, and then proceed to develop to the higher levels.... Now we see nothing but copying or imitation without any grasp of the real thing.

  Gozo Shioda

  Real, People, Trying

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• And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Real, Believe

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Servant of the Shard: The Sellswords”, p.26, Wizards of the Coast

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• My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

  Diego Della Valle

  Children, Father, Real

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• The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Children, Real, Men

  "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, en.wikisource.org. September 21, 1897.

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• I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

  Questlove

  Real, Average, Four

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• The challenge is to write about real things magically.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Writing, Challenges

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• Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? They’re nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. Or maybe not. It struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that I was shedding were just shadows. You don’t get it, I’m sure, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. When a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. It’s true.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Real, Heart

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• It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Light, Shining

  Tom Stoppard (1998). “The Invention of Love”, p.71, Grove Press

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• And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.

  Graham Swift

  Real, Illusion, Knows

  Graham Swift (2012). “Ever After”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

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• Every idea from your thoughts is the real thing it's strength

  Rhonda Byrne

  Real, Ideas

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• Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Reality, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

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• Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Kissing, World

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• I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Falling In Love, Real, Moving

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