Realises Quotes

#1. That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Paul Muldoon

#2. Nobody's really happy. And as soon as society realises that you can't trust anyone and that hardship is a natural part of existence, the sooner the therapists will realise that they are worthless! Sorry. They have worth deficit disorder!

Christopher Titus

#3. When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

P.D. Ouspensky

#4. The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#5. I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.

Bo Burnham

#6. I glance at the book he's holding. It is American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. There is a deep, dark irony to this and I wonder if he realises it or not. I want to ask him why he's bought it but what if he's bought it as a text book?

Sarah Alderson

#7. Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

Maria Montessori

#8. Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

Sri Chinmoy

#9. It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

Omar Musa

#10. Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Chanakya

#11. Go be with your husband ... before he realises that he's still in love with me

Tarryn Fisher

#12. With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.

Fazal Inayat-Khan

#13. Julesa: "Are you a fool? Father will have you hung if he realises you've escaped."
Never: "Everyone dies from something.

Ashley Capes

#14. When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

Eckhart Tolle

#15. Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.

Sri Chinmoy

#16. The most interestingly odd thing about education is that one too often realises its importance in life long after one's youthful days of education are over.

Q.M. Sidd

#17. You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.'
She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.
'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

Ramana Maharshi

#19. Teddy accepts the challenge. 'It has bodies floating in it, and severed heads, bobbing up and down.' He realises that his dream doesn't sound very romantic. 'And some flowers also.

Mohammed Hanif

#20. Ove looks at the group assembled around him, as if he's been kidnapped and taken to a parallel universe. For a moment he thinks about swerving off the road, until he realises that the worst case scenario would be that they all accompanied him into the afterlife.

Fredrik Backman

#21. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Virginia Woolf

#22. I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Tony Blair

#23. Caterham realises corporate America and the American consumer market ... is the largest consumer market in the world and it is something that needs to be part of Formula One.

Alexander Rossi

#24. Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Max Weber

#25. You become free like you always dreamed, yet you realise that every land is different and you do not belong anywhere yet you live everywhere and that we all share the same lands except you seem to be the only one who realises this fact

Yolanda De Iuliis

#26. Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.

George Harrison

#27. ...the essential task of feminism is not to go looking around for a ready-made theory and then try to make it relevant to our (little?) "issue" or "problem". This is self-depreciating in the extreme, a fact that is obvious if one realises that feminism is cosmic in its dimensions.

Mary Daly

#28. I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

John Thaw

#29. Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. Mr. Upward italicises "at the present time" because he realises that you cannot, for instance, dismiss Hamlet on the ground that Shakespeare was not a Marxist.

George Orwell

#31. She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

David Nicholls

#32. Oh yeah, well I suddenly realises that she'd only been with my boyfriend at the Co-op Christmas do when I were eighteen. So I grabs her head and I stuck it through a display of them Muller's rices and I told her. That's for shagging Kevin Cooper you stupid fucking cunt.

St John Morris

#33. The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but life begins again at the end of the page, and one realises that one has knew nothing whatsoever.

Italo Calvino

#34. There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#35. Ninjas are far more important to science than anyone realises. If we could capture one to study, I think most of science's biggest puzzles might be resolved.

Jasper Fforde

#36. A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

#37. Ava realises she has no idea what a mother might think if you took to her child with a machete, irrespective of the moral righteousness of it. Surely as a writer she should have a greater understanding of what goes on in the minds of others. She must try harder.

Mark O'Flynn

#38. Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Oscar Wilde

#39. I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

Martha Wainwright

#40. Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.

Melina Marchetta

#41. If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

Alexander Wang

#42. When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

C.S. Lewis

#43. Possibly from the outside this looks determinedly individual. Nobody realises what a mess of loneliness and inadequacy I am inside.

Lindsay Anderson

#44. "All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

Gautama Buddha

#45. Let him treat you like a lady and open the car door for you. If he doesn't automatically open the door for you, stand by the darn thing and don't get into the vehicle until he realises he needs to get hid behind out of the driver's seat and come round and open the car door for you. That's his job!

Steve Harvey

#46. No one realises that some individuals consume herculesque forces only to be normal.

Albert Camus

#47. The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

Werner Heisenberg

#48. The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

Ali Shariati

#49. The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

Idries Shah

#50. She realises how little she knows about this man. Her knowledge little more than a thin sheen of brightness, like reflected sunlight on an opaque pond.

Glenn Haybittle

#51. At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.

Lydia Davis