I Realize Quotes

#1. When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

Jodi Picoult

#2. I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

Gayle Forman

#3. She turns to me, and for a moment I fear she's turning into the She-Hulk. After a second, I realize that her eyes are just really green, kind of like two angry Life Savers.

Brian Katcher

#4. There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.

Annie Lennox

#5. To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

Archie Shepp

#6. Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"

George Carlin

#7. Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#8. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

Jessi Kirby

#9. The more I read, the more I know. The more I know, I realize how less I know.

Self

#10. I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.

Marian Seldes

#11. It is a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize.

Jodi Picoult

#12. You shouldn't let him hit you so much" observed saphira
"Yes I realize that'" he growled.
"Do you want me to knock him over for you?"
"No ... not today.

Christopher Paolini

#13. Playing games with peoples heart and emotions will leave you looking CRAZY in the end.
The moment you realize I MATTER will be the same moment I realize you NO LONGER DO!

L. Michelle

#14. I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

Judy Gold

#15. I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Sting

#16. Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.

Bruce Molsky

#17. I realize that nothing belongs to her any more and she belongs to everything. She

Markus Zusak

#18. I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.

Paul Auster

#19. Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

Billy Gardell

#20. Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has.

Carla Trueheart

#21. I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

Marlo Thomas

#22. The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

Christopher Walken

#23. With every day that passes by, I realize more and more
That regardless of the reasons why, when nothing's certain, change is sure.

S.M. Royston

#24. I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.

Jennifer Lopez

#25. As I age, I realize that now is yesterday's later, and that later is a bad plan.

Stephen Guise

#26. I realize that I'm not going to be doing interviews for the cover of 'GQ' for the rest of my life, know what I mean? I'm on TV because I play basketball really well.

Chris Paul

#27. I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

David Rockefeller

#28. When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

Andrew Shue

#29. And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

Melanie Shankle

#30. People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.

Matthew Quick

#31. I realize how arrogant it is to claim I can sort what is relevant from what is irrelevant.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#32. I still feel like the person who shouldn't be doing this and everyone is acting around me as if I'm a badass all the time. And this still feels like a stretch. I realize this is something that is incredible. I get to do this and I get wonderful teachers to help me and it's amazing.

Kate Beckinsale

#33. Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point.
"No. Just sick of myself."
"Why?"
"Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas.

Andrea Camilleri

#34. When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#35. Dissecting my linguistic metamorphosis, I realize that I'm trying to get away from something, to free myself. I've been writing in Italian for almost two years, and I feel that I've been transformed, almost reborn.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#36. I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

Lykke Li

#37. The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.

Socrates

#38. I think about Sam sometimes now and I realize that he is walking around with a fake set of memories about our time together. Our time together did not exist. I was not spending it with him.

Helen Slavin

#39. When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon.

Ray Bradbury

#40. I realize that he took a piece of me with him. When I told this to Rose, she patted my shoulder and said I was being irrational.

Krista Ritchie

#41. I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

Judd Apatow

#42. I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.

Cokie Roberts

#43. The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me.

Octavia Spencer

#44. 'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'

Lois Lowry

#45. Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Tom McCall

#46. I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

Paul McCartney

#47. Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.

Oscar Wilde

#48. As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.

Tatiana Maslany

#49. Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

Charlie Sheen

#50. I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

Dave Barry

#51. We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.

Renee Lawless

#52. Only later would I realize that our trip had added a new dimension to my understanding of the fact that brains give rise to our ability to form relationships and make life meaningful. Sometimes, they break.

Paul Kalanithi

#53. Every day that I bring this World Title home with me, I realize it's a gift. It's a blessing. And this? This has been the biggest, the BIGGEST ride of my life.

Oscar Gutierrez

#54. I can feel blood dripping from the wounds on my face and I can feel my heart beating and I can feel the weight of my life beginning to drop and I realize why dawn is called mourning.

James Frey

#55. The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

Jennifer Morrison

#56. Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.

Emil Cioran

#57. When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.

River Phoenix

#58. I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

Augusten Burroughs

#59. I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

#60. With each stride, I realize I'm not so emotionally overwhelmed anymore. A sense of purpose and fulfillment has replaced my feelings of helplessness.

Sandra Vischer

#61. Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

Anthony Kiedis

#62. It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

Alicia Keys

#63. And I know you thought a lot of him. I realize I'm hardly the perfect substitute, but like I said, the way things are going maybe it's stupid to wait for perfection. Suddenly he was looking directly at her and Cassie saw something in his mahogany eyes she'd never seen before.

L.J.Smith

#64. The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.

Emily Giffin

#65. It's quite impressive. You must be skilled with a blade."
"I prefer the bow. Perhaps we could go for a hunt sometime. I could impress you with my very unladylike talents."
As soon as the words escape my mouth, I realize how it sounded and I flush deep crimson.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#66. Suddenly I realize it wasn't debris I felt against my escape pod as I left the ship. It was people.

Pierce Brown

#67. For the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.

David Levithan

#68. It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

M. Ward

#69. With the full assurance God is okay with me even when I'm not okay with me. And I realize, I can't hold on to the desire to run and at the same time go where God wants to lead me.

Lysa TerKeurst

#70. And that's when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do.

Lauren Barnholdt

#71. I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.

Shannon Tweed

#72. I tell her she's beautiful and perfect and she's going to be okay. I tell her she doesn't need to change herself to fit in with shallow girls or to matter to someone. I tell her everything I wish I had ever known. I tell her I love her, and I realize as I say it that I love me, too.

Cristin Terrill

#73. With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything for ... to you. I am living in a dream, in a dream I don't want to awake from.

Sawm Rad

#74. Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting ... and life.

Randeep Hooda

#75. Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

Gordon Parks

#76. In theory, the idea of eternity in heaven singing God's praises sounds really good, but when I realize I have to go through the death part to get there, I'm not quite so enamored with the idea.

Kim Hunt Harris

#77. For the first time I can see this other longing
the desire to stay. For the first time I realize that maybe she insists on us staying apart because she doesn't want to lose this all over again.

Amie Kaufman

#78. First off, I'd like to thank God for changing my life. He let me really realize what life is all about. Basketball is just a platform, In order for me to inspire people. And I realize that.

Kevin Durant

#79. Outside, I experience a bad feeling and I realize it is because I haven't been outside for a few day so now it's uncomfortable.

Sam Pink

#80. (by the way ... I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it ... ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in.)

Charles Bukowski

#81. Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

Bob Saget

#82. As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

Ai Weiwei

#83. As I recall this I realize how open we are to the persistent message that we can avert death. And to its punitive correlative, the message that if death catches us we have only ourselves to blame. Only

Joan Didion

#84. I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Novalis

#85. You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake!
Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?

Kerstin Gier

#86. Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

Jeffrey Toobin

#87. I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

Neil Gaiman

#88. I used to think this heroic: my sturdy, stable dad, capable of anything. But now I realize that he's just drawn to dying, helpless things. The unsaveables.
Like Mom.
Maybe, like me.

Kate Ellison

#89. That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..

Carrie Jones

#90. I realize more and more I miss my 'Survivor' friends when I'm not around them.

Jenna Morasca

#91. Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

Mariah Carey

#92. To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

J. C. Chandor

#93. I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

George Carlin

#94. I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

Debby Ryan

#95. I realize you think I'm just a filthy manwhore, but it does actually matter to me.

Christina Lauren

#96. How do you know he's dead? I realize that I may regret asking that question." "He's got a broken neck from falling off a roof and I reckon he fell off because he got a steel crossbow dart in his brain." "Ah. That sounds like dead, if you want my medical opinion.

Terry Pratchett

#97. I realize now that what I was trying to do with the Armaghast data was offer the Church not a rebirth but only a transition to a false life such as these poor walking corpses inhabit. If the Church is meant to die, it must do so - but do so gloriously, in the full knowledge of its rebirth in Christ.

Dan Simmons

#98. I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

Lech Walesa

#99. I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.

Claire Bidwell Smith

#100. Back home I was considered a bookish girl because I had read eight or nine books. But when I came to the UK I met girls who had read hundreds. Now I realize I've read hardly anything at all, and I want to read all those hundreds of books.

Malala Yousafzai