5,320 Quotes About Real

Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.

Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.