Real World Quotes

622 Real World quotes by 517 unique authors

Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the… — Rich Lowry
What works in the real world is cooperation. — William J. Clinton
We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free… — Michael Crichton
The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to… — John Hamill
In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless. — Fischer Black
Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it.… — Rabindranath Tagore
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to… — Erin Morgenstern
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events… — John F. Kennedy
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job. — James Fallows
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not… — Neil Kinnock
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana
The telling of stories creates the real world. — Alberto Manguel
The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know… — Frank Zappa
Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could… — Victoria Moran
I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If… — David Oyelowo
I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just… — Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as… — Tamora Pierce
When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And… — Francine Pascal
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real… — Dave Van Ronk
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about. — Johann Lamont
There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th. There are so many things… — Mae Whitman
The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles… — Duncan Jones
At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it,… — George Gilder
Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It… — Richard K. Morgan

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