Top 1200 Real Human Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

Unless you got real short and real fat, you ain't no Booker T!

It's easy to make clothes for a model, but when you can put them on real women and real curves, that's the test.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

If you listen to Bryson Tiller's record, there's some real music. There's some trap stuff, but if you listen to what's on top of that stuff, that's real music. I look at that and I know it's real. I respect it immensely.

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

I feel just in terms of knowing who is real, who has got your back, and who's there for you is what helps you stay grounded and real.

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.

There's a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don't know. It's very real.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

Potential audiences are real people found in real places.

We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.

The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

I've had my best experience as a filmmaker with true stories about real people and real cultures.

Thoughts are very real, even if we can't see them. They create real & powerful feelings & experiences.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real.

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

I am a real person with real fears, hopes and dreams.

People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don't want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.

How can depression be real if our eyes arent real?

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can't even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.

Real heroes don't wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!

I believe change should come from the real leader, who can make a real peace, and his name is God.

I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

People would be surprised to see the real Sudha. I am gawky and not well dressed in my real life.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

Real hippies don't like me at all. They can smell a real hippy.

Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.