Top 656 Real Quotes

There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you’ve made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who’s been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
Colm Toibin
My real personality comes out in the country. More spontaneous, more excited. There’s always someone watching you in the city – you’re a sort of zoo animal. My true nature is to want to hide a bit.
Liv Tyler
My real name is Amanda Rose Saccomanno, so a lot of people don’t know that, but Rose is kind of special in my family as my grandma’s name is Rosemary, my mom’s name is Mary Rose, I’m Amanda Rose, my niece is Demi Rose.
Mandy Rose
If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Bill Gates
I’m looking for the unexplainable connection and spark – real, true love.
Rachel Lindsay
When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we’d bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
Gareth Bale
All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
John Wayne
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I’m a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
Zooey Deschanel
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey
For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.
James Gosling
I’m just living life and enjoying it. Alive, kicking, and doing good. That’s what a real winner is.
Chamillionaire
If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.
Andy Warhol
It’s easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.
Gin Wigmore
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.
Laetitia Casta
America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
Bono
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan
I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.
Enzo Ferrari
If you listen to me, it’s real stories. It’s catchy and something you can relate to.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don’t think there’s any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry – if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Unlike ‘real relationships’, ‘virtual relationships’ are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
Zygmunt Bauman
Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Beginning with exercise, the best training program avai

Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.
Lee Haney
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
Freeman Dyson
A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
Lev Vygotsky
There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.
Saul Leiter
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror – real or fake, provoked or accidental – can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.
Timothy D. Snyder
Exploration by real people inspires us.
Stephen Hawking
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
The real Hindu vision is that nobody will be discriminated against or favoured. Everyone is equal.
Yogi Adityanath
When I played Robert Howard in ‘The Whole Wide World’, I was struggling with it. There’s this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there’s constant shame: ‘Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?’
Vincent D’Onofrio
We need to hear stories from older women. There’s a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they’re silenced.
Hannah Gadsby
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
Joan Didion
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
James Truslow Adams
Aliens are definitely real.
Kali Uchis
Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
Jennifer Ellison
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
Watkin Tudor Jones
I’m a real girl. I get it. I gain weight, I lose weight. My styles change.
Tiffany Darwish
People’s hustle in the Bronx is real.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
Jim Morrison
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
Buddha
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
Dalai Lama
Everybody don’t have a Bentley in real life.
21 Savage
My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Mitch Hedberg
Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.
Dakota Meyer
Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
Chris Milk
Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
Francesco Totti
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith
I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.
Judy Garland
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears man

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
Robert H. Schuller
That’s what all art’s about – a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can’t in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really – to do something that’s just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
Kate Bush
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
You always have to play with desire at Real Madrid.
Marcelo
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
Maurice Ravel
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it’s real, and you’re really there.
Jamie Bell
Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity – two magic potions in themselves – the very essence of laughter – the unrestrained emotion within us!
Douglas Fairbanks
Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.
Sylvie Guillem
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck
The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism.
Carl Bernstein
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Sai Baba