#the real world

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#beyond #food #i #like #real

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. ↗

— William Weld

#believed #bunny #each #easter #economic

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#exists #individuals #mental #only #real

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. ↗

— David Guterson

#fictional #finally #find #fits #history

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#arbitrarily #causes #demand #denied #events

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#blunder #dull #fantasy #into #real

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enthusiasm #everything #ideas #perseverance #real

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world. ↗

— Christo

#danger #energy #everything #involves #me