Real Quotes - Page 92

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.

So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse is real.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.

Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away. My hope is to see it replaced, without any bloodshed, with a democratic, secular and lay state – for example on the borders of historic Palestine – and where Palestinians and Israelis could live under equal rights of citizenship without ethnic and religious discrimination. It's a wish that I hope will soon become a reality.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the Universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.