Real Quotes - Page 6

• The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Lying, Essence

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• We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Vices, Doe

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, People, Hopeless

  "The Flying Inn". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1914.

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• And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ignorance, Men, Giving

  "Doubts About Darwinism". The Illustrated London News, July 17, 1920.

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• The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Trouble, Exactitude

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.

  J. L. Austin

  Knowing, Negative, Needs

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• It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

  J. L. Austin

  Criteria, Should, Clear

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• The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Men, Genius, Wonder

  Mary Hunter Austin, Maxwell Aley (1925). “Everyman's genius”

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• Just as the archetype of the supermom--the woman who can do it all--minimizes the real needs of women, so too the archetype of the"superkid" minimizes the real needs of children. It makes it all right to treat a young child as if he or she were older.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, Needs, Treats

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• Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Teacher, Children, Boys

  "Youth: it's education, regimen and hygiene". Book by G. Stanley Hall, 1906.

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• Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

  Adi Da

  Process, Aspect, Existence

  Da Free John, Adi Da Samraj, Georg Feuerstein (1984). “The transmission of doubt: talks and essays on the transcendence of scientific materialism through radical understanding”, Dawn Horse Pr

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• The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Secret, Diplomats, Diplomacy

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• we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Enemy, Energy, Disease

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• In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Men, Hands

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• I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. They [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner - and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers [...] a miracle from God.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Fall, Long, Miracle

  "Iraqi cleric calls 9/11 'miracle from God'" by Vivian Paulsen, edition.cnn.com. March 27, 2004.

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• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Mistake, Men

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• It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

  William P. Young

  Impossible

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May 2007.

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• I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

  William P. Young

  Thinking, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with C.J. Darlington, Miriam Parker, Deena Peterson, Melissa J. Carswell, www.titletrakk.com.

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• Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Silence, Speech, Conversation

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.

  Richard Rosen

  Spring, Self, Development

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• We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Sports, Heart, Secret

  John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• It seems to me that he has never loved, that he has only imagined that he has loved, that there has been no real love on his part. I even think that he is incapable of love; he is too much occupied with other thoughts and ideas to become strongly attached to anyone earthly.

  Anna Dostoyevskaya

  Love, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm not a real vocal guy, but sometimes you need to kick someone in the ass.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Guy, Needs, Sometimes

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• In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Women, Consuming

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, United States, Comic

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