Top 656 Real Quotes

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
Gore Vidal
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
Phyllis Schlafly
In our globalized world, what happens in one nation has a very real impact on everybody else.
Will Hurd
Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what’s real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.
Ryan Higa
My responsibility isn’t to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
Jhumpa Lahiri
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
James MacGregor Burns
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Chuck Palahniuk
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
Alain Delon
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
H. P. Lovecraft
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
David Ricardo
Vinyl is the real deal. I’ve always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don’t really own the album. And it’s not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
Jack White
I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like

The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
Brian Clough
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
Thomas Arnold
Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.
Claude Monet
What’s the subject of life – to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Paul A. Volcker
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
Maurice Sendak
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they’re doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
Gianni Versace
I became real good friends with John Stockton and Karl Malone and am still good friends with them to this day. It was always good to go see them and then play with them in the 1996 Olympics as well. I idolized John Stockton at the time, I tried to model my game after him.
Gary Payton
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything’s real.
Marina Abramovic
I’m a real big celebrity. I’m this megastar.
Flavor Flav
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
Cyberspace can’t compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
Jonathan Sacks
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn’t even exist. It’s kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.
David Lynch
The only real game – I think – in the world is baseball.
George Herman
With me, Bobby Fish, and Kyle O’Reilly, I know on-screen we are these brothers whose bond can’t be broken, and we are this faction. I promise you, it’s very real behind the scenes, too. I’ve known those guys for years. We travel together all the time; we talk every single day.
Adam Cole
I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it’s important how clothing looks, but it’s equally important how it feels on your skin.
Colleen Atwood
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
Peter Capaldi
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
Real religion is no religion at all.
Lauryn Hill
Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there’s shadow – no, not just shadow, but fullness. You’ve got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that’s real.
Amy Grant
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein
Real living is living for others.
Bruce Lee
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
Larry Harvey
They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don’t remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.
Sparky Anderson
If we don’t figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we’re not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
Tim Wise
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
In real life, I’m the type of girl who doesn’t take herself too seriously. I’m very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.
Gal Gadot
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.
Mike Tyson
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne
I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock, and that there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.
Peter Lynch
The real key is to live in an environment where the min

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Deepak Chopra
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked… not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn’t be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
Liv Ullmann
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
William Bennett
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one’s children.
William Bennett
It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.
Richard P. Feynman
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
Federico Fellini
I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don’t let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that’s real love.
Idina Menzel
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days… or a few months after childbirth.
Richard J. Codey
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I think there’s a real sex appeal to vampires. They’re very sexy.
Danielle Rose Russell
Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.
Margot Robbie
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Michel De Certeau
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
Mary Baker Eddy
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
Yogi Berra
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde