Really Quotes Page 14

Really Quotes

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
Bono

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Toni Morrison

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Thomas Sowell

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand Russell

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
Rita Rudner

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia Woolf

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Robert Mugabe

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Arthur Conan Doyle

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
Billie Joe Armstrong