Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life – it’s one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.
And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don’t move quickly.
I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.
We’ve come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.
Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.