Actual Life Quotes

33 Actual Life quotes by 31 unique authors

If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been… — Loraine Boettner
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality.… — Taylor Swift
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious… — Polybius
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is… — Unknown Author
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate… — Epictetus
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike… — Norman McLaren
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic… — Mark Strand
Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the… — Lesley Hazleton
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it,… — Ernest Hemingway
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life… — Theodore L. Cuyler
I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and… — Debbie Gibson
I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life. — Lauren Graham
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who… — Theodore Roosevelt
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. — Dawn French
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the… — Samuel Smiles
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place… — Marcel Proust
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's… — William James

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