Real World Quotes

622 quotes by 536 authors

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. — Dan Aykroyd
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has… — Michele Bachmann
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. — William Bernbach
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. — Tony Blair
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. — Dan Brown
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all… — Dan Brown
I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good… — Alan Alda
In the real world, children love me. — Jackie Chan
You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what… — Chris Christie
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is… — William J. Clinton
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time,… — William J. Clinton
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. — A. R. Ammons
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most… — Barbara Holland
You know he can't save you, right? In the real world, that guy right there...he can't save you. — Lil Wayne
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship… — Jack Kerouac
Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run. — Ray Lewis
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.… — Clarence Day
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. — Mark Twain
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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