Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary.

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.

The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.

I like a man who can respect a woman. When he's real attentive, I think that is very manly. To respect a woman is divine.

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness...

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.

The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.

If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction

You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

If you think you love me, then you don’t know what love is,' Gabriel said. 'Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

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