Realize It Quotes

#1. The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it. I waited in silence

Elena Ferrante

#2. It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

Sarah Dessen

#3. I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.

Sharon Stone

#4. As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.

Karine Vanasse

#5. What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.

Joey Harrington

#6. We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.

Marianne Williamson

#7. Maybe it's like free-falling. You feel like you'd rather do anything than face it, but once you do it you realize it's the best feeling you've ever had.

Mindi Scott

#8. We didn't realize it at the time, but what we carried with us were colorful, stringers-full of memories, which now hang in our heads like trophy trout above the fireplace mantel.

Dan Adams

#9. you will perhaps miss
the part of you that is gone
but do not fear:
all is for the best in the world
and soon you will not realize it is gone:
you have either forgotten it entirely or
it has come back
alive

Tah The Trickster

#10. When who you are is grounded in whose you are, you realize it doesn't matter what life throws your way.

Tim Tebow

#11. Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you are hearing the tale.

Matthew Kirby

#12. I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.

Nina Hagen

#13. I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.

Melissa Marr

#14. 'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie!

Corey Taylor

#15. When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

James Howe

#16. We're proud of Venezuela and Venezuelan baseball. People in America don't realize it, but we've got 25, 30 million people here, and so many of us love baseball. This is a great place to look for talent.

Johan Santana

#17. If I didn't like you, I could take any or all of what I found and invent a context that lost you your job, your relationships, your degree. People are so vulnerable online and they don't realize it. That is scary to me.

Mark Cuban

#18. Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

Randall Munroe

#19. We are always swimming in the ocean of love, but most of the time, we just don't realize it.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Robin Morgan

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

Pierce Brown

#22. You spend a long time waiting for life to start - the past year or two filled with all these firsts, everything new and terrifying and significant - and then it does start and you realize it isn't what you'd expected, or asked for.

Megan Abbott

#23. Sometimes you know you have something, but your subconscious doesn't realize it. That is when you just need to get used to life's little unexpected occurances.

Svetlana Sonday

#24. Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. I've been numb for years, and I didn't realize it until after you appeared and - and made me feel something. Since then, these past two weeks I've been awake. Alive. Restless for you to return - and afraid that you wouldn't.

Alexandra Monir

#26. We hardly ever realize it, that we have the ability to cut anything out of our lives, any pain, any misery, any negative person, anytime, in the blink of an eye. We hold the power.

Jose N. Harris

#27. Now everything is backed up on the cloud and you can find your phone if you lose it in a taxi. Don't you realize it's only a matter of time before our phones can FIND US?

Amy Poehler

#28. 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

#29. I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[ ... ] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.

David Levithan

#30. Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done ... it's about what been done for us.

Tricia Goyer

#31. I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.

Nina Simone

#32. Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Dorothea Lange

#33. Zentangling creations may seem really intricate and intimidating. However, when you learn the basics, you will realize it is simple. It is like learning the secret to a magic trick. In Zentangling, you ask the question "So what else can I not do?

Valerie Coven

#34. In the end when you get your master back, you realize it's got absolutely nothing to do with what you thought it was going to be when you started.

King Khan

#35. A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

Kathy Valentine

#36. Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.

Benjamin Hoff

#37. Here's the thing about global warming that I didn't realize: it would all happen at once.

Jon Stewart

#38. I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it's because you've ripped a hole in your skin.

Gillian Flynn

#39. Our whole life we are preparing for a journey to paradise, but we are walking through the paradise if we can realize it, see the beauty and see the miracles and enjoy it.

Debasish Mridha

#40. His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.
(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James)

Herbert A. Wise

#41. The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

Rebecca Skloot

#42. The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#43. You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

Danny Boyle

#44. In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

Gregory Maguire

#45. Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

James Lee Burke

#46. Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.

David Cottrell

#47. In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's too late.

Abby Fabiaschi

#48. Then the pints will get further apart, and then one of us will get into a relationship and won't be around as much; the texts will start with Hey, too long no see, and all of a sudden we'll realize it's been a year since we met up. And

Tana French

#49. Everybody screws up, ... Remember that. The trick is to realize it and start fixing the screwup.

Jon Jackson

#50. The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it.

Joe Rogan

#51. Whatever the path that brought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Though you may not realize it now.
Therefore,please open your ears.
Listen to the message that Sedona has for you. The old juniper standing tall in the golden sunset just might tell you the reason.

Ilchi Lee

#52. She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.

Anthony Liccione

#53. I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

David Bergen

#54. 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

#55. Knowledge management will never work
until corporations realize it's not about
how you capture knowledge but
how you create and leverage it.

Etienne Wenger

#56. I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory ... Love.

Joe Pepitone

#57. Sometimes you care and love people but they didn't realize it. they realize it, when you stop caring or loving them but then, everything is meaningless

Qasim Habib

#58. I've been in love with you for damn-near my entire life, and the only regret I have is that I didn't realize it sooner.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#59. Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#60. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

Jodi Picoult

#61. I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

Wayne Gretzky

#62. All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.

Alexander McCall Smith

#63. My entire life sucked." He nuzzles his chin into my hair. "And I didn't realize it until I met you.

Cynthia Sax

#64. May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.

Ahmed Mostafa

#65. Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromell

#66. You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the words, 'I love you.' And each passer-by, no matter who, gets a square all his or her own. I don't want my square of toilet paper.'
I didn't realize it was toilet paper.

Kurt Vonnegut

#67. What a goon. He's lucky to know you, but too stupid to ever realize it.

Lena Dunham

#68. Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.

Michel Ocelot

#69. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.

Marisa Silver

#70. I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

Chandra Wilson

#71. Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

Preet Bharara

#72. A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

Matthea Harvey

#73. When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.

Trent Reznor

#74. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Eckhart Tolle

#75. It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

#76. I'm just staring at him, mouth half-open. As soon as I realize it, I find something to say, anything. "Who the hell are you?"
"March," he tells me.
"That a name or an order?

Ann Aguirre

#77. And then when you are actually in the moment and you see the time slipping away from you, you realize it wasn't just something people said in songs and poems and books. It was something those people had actually felt and been through.

Dan Skinner

#78. Let's live a lie for today.
You'll spin tales
and pretend to love me.
And I'll smile; you'll not realize it's fake
Then I'll pretend
your pretensions don't cause me pain.

Sreesha Divakaran

#79. I woke up this morning," Gabriel said, "thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don't realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man's usual inclination in the morning.

Eloisa James

#80. People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

#81. I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.

Edward Snowden

#82. I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

William T. Vollmann

#83. Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#84. Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.

Souad

#85. I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

Ray Stevens

#86. You have more power than you know, Samantha. You just have to be brave enough to realize it.

Adriana Mather

#87. As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.

Lauren Conrad

#88. Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it's not real, that my house isn't burning down, that the deer aren't going to kill me.

Shannon Celebi

#89. The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it
to realize it to the full
to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#90. Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.

Travis Bradberry

#91. If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it's our job to realize it and get down to business.

Steven Pressfield

#92. Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

Andrea Riseborough

#93. Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Dave Ramsey

#94. Darkness has a way of creeping up on you, making its presence known before you even realize it's happened.

Melyssa Winchester

#95. My steps feel lighter now and I realize it's because I'm running toward something, and not away from it.

Clare Mackintosh

#96. In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

William S. Burroughs

#97. Everyone is psychic to some degree, and really successful paranormal investigators even if they do not realize it are using their own psychic ability to sense the environment.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

#98. Habits are behaviors that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously. Whether you realize it or not, your life has been, and will continue to be, created by your habits. If you don't control your habits your habits will control you.

Hal Elrod

#99. I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening.

David Levithan

#100. Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

George Harrison