#real world

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

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#any #books #crime #crimes #does

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

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#inequities #into #out #real #real world

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#connect #connects #entrepreneurs #fine #get