Real Quotes

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

Faith is personal if it’s to be real.

Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. “Ari” appears on the edge of this book a couple of times – but on the edge, she’s never in it, even if she’s a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, ‘I was always happy.’ Hopefully, we will be able to say, ‘I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.’

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.