Realising Things Quotes

#1. As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

Harriet Walter

#2. After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

Trevor Dunn

#3. I once went to one of his Virgin Vie parties and had a really good time watching Chas having a paddy whilst trying to put on Dave's socks, before realising that he only had two feet, compared to Dave's three.

St John Morris

#4. 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

#5. There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all there is.

Martin Rees

#6. Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Max Lucado

#7. But if he has lost the sane vision, he can only get it back by something very like a mad vision; that is, by seeing a man as a strange animal and realising how strange an animal he is.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.

Mango Wodzak

#9. I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord

Guru Gobind Singh

#10. I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.

Riz Ahmed

#11. Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

Archie Kalokerinos

#12. One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.

George Ogilvie

#13. I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising,

Miriam Makeba

#14. We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

Henry Blackaby

#15. At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#16. In the meantime, without realising it, I had learned a valuable lesson - in the need for an author to have a total belief in their characters if they are to come alive!

Robin Rowles

#17. I have to get back to the hotel. But I don't know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn't notice where we were going. Nut I came to this point. without realising my attitude and actions. It's like I am slowing falling into a valley. I wonder where I'm standing now.

Ai Yazawa

#18. 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

#19. Every day I'm the hero in my own personal movie. Some days without realising, I show up in other people's movies. And they almost always cast me as the villain. Anonymous.

Anonymous

#20. Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.

Robert H. Schuller

#21. The heart power once engaged and awakened is capable of achieving and realising the things to make your life wonderful.

Steven Redhead

#22. Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

Buzz Aldrin

#23. I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

Katherine Heigl

#24. My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

Vanessa Paradis

#25. I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.

Guy Maddin

#26. A real relationship's based on trust and understanding, the sharing of little things. Moments of happiness and laughter. Realising you've both just had the same thought, or were about to say the same thing.

Peter May

#27. All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.

Paddy Considine

#28. Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously - the quick ways of doing things - was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter - into yourself.

Isamu Noguchi

#29. 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

#30. The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Alain De Botton

#31. Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

Johnny Depp

#32. I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#33. For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#34. I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

Moon Unit Zappa

#35. I was realising that all new feelings from here on in would probably be bad ones. Surprises would no longer be good.

Lorrie Moore

#36. Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.

Steve Hagen

#37. St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

John Dyer

#38. A woman can only satisfy and fulfil herself, I understood, when she establishes her own authority, and see beyond equality, realising how terrible and damaging her own power - if unleashed - might be.

Ronald Frame

#39. Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.

Chloe Thurlow

#40. I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

Johnny Vegas

#41. I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.

Jean-Louis Gassee

#42. Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.

Christos Tsiolkas

#43. I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

Roman Abramovich

#44. At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.

J.K. Rowling

#45. Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting.

Matt Haig

#46. Those who live a long life without realising their spiritual goals are as similar to the hygienic zombies walking on earth.

Vishal Chipkar

#47. One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Gustav Holst

#48. 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

#49. I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.

Ellie Goulding

#50. In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#51. Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.

Marc Almond

#52. 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

#53. Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#54. Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

Hillary Clinton

#55. I'm increasingly realising our consciousness and subconsciousness are extremely different, and our subconsciousness motivates us, but so far, I don't know what drove or motivates me.

James Nesbitt

#56. Time spent for temporary happiness like movie or outing or weekend on a beach is all synthetic; with shelf life of a day or two. Work for your bigger dreams that should last for whole life. Then movie and beach would seem more interesting, realising that you have done something.

Vikrmn

#57. 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

#58. Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who want to make themselves heard, politically, especially about foreign policy issues. Its electoral weight can bring back to the forefront the Palestinian issue.

Tariq Ramadan

#59. For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.

Marcel Proust

#60. Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

Will Self

#61. More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

Barack Obama

#62. 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

#63. It was my first dead body and I waited for the appropriate feelings. I didn't know what feelings to expect, which was worse than realising that I had none.

John Mole

#64. The moment we fully and vitally realise who and what we are, we then begin to build our own World even as God builds his.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#65. 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

#66. Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Tom Felton