Top 42 Not Realising Quotes
#1. Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.
Christos Tsiolkas
#2. At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.
J.K. Rowling
#3. I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
Leonard Cohen
#4. Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.
Rowan Williams
#5. I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.
Peter Greenaway
#6. More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.
Barack Obama
#7. I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.
Andrew Flintoff
#8. People often ignore injustices for the sake of Not Getting Involved; too afraid of Making Matters Worse. Not realising matters are made far worse because of it.
Poppy Inkwell
#9. Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.
Mango Wodzak
#10. You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.
Jeremy Clarkson
#11. For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#12. No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
Gordon Brown
#13. The greatest sin in the world is to say 'I love you' without realising that God snd his angels are listening and judging. If you do not feel their presence you are not in love. You have no right to be in love.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#14. We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.
Holly Johnson
#15. I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.
Clive Anderson
#16. Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?
Paul Valery
#17. I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
H.G.Wells
#18. Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
Olivia De Havilland
#19. In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly and gave it the requisite dent.
Agatha Christie
#20. And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
Michael Moore
#21. With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
Jack White
#22. I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.
Teresa Palmer
#23. I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.
John Buchan
#24. Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches - anything bigger or smaller and you know you're going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core.
Arjun Rampal
#25. I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.
John Lennon
#26. You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
Tom Lehrer
#28. Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.
John Frederick Demartini
#29. But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live.
Jess Walter
#30. I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds really creepy ... You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you're there.
Anna Paquin
#31. Fozzy was slowly realising his mistake of not having taken his friends words of warning more serious all those years ago. 'She's an expensive filly, with double standards,' he had said. Fozzy had not listened.
Tanya Thistleton
#32. The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.
Morrissey
#33. Homo sapiens, which as far as I can tell is only another way of saying weaponised chimpanzees who are hellbent on tearing their cage apart without realising it's not a cage, it's their fucking life support they're shredding.
Paul Russell
#34. I suddenly became conscious that, for the first time in my whole life, I was essential to somebody. I could not enter a room without realising that he was instantly aware of my presence; I could not leave a room without knowing that he would at once feel and regret my absence.
Florence L. Barclay
#35. You are very attractive. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it!
A.J. Cronin
#36. We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.
Germaine Greer
#37. All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.
John Lennon
#38. The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.
Marcel Duchamp
#39. I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was.
Nigel Lythgoe
#40. I think I'm learning
that sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,
but to turn away from it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#41. Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century.
Eoin Colfer
