Realize They Quotes

#1. All good ideas are terrible ...
Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

Seth Godin

#2. Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.

Daniel H. Wilson

#4. like drops of poison so small someone didn't realize they'd ingested something dangerous until it had overtaken them. "Anyway,

Kiera Cass

#5. It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.

Alison Bechdel

#6. Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father - but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.

Mercedes Lackey

#7. In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.

Lucinda Franks

#8. There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?

David Wong

#9. When people realize they're being listened to, they tell you things.

Richard Ford

#10. A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.

Paul Simonon

#11. Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

Courtney M. Privett

#12. If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.

W. Edwards Deming

#13. All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.

Rufus Wainwright

#14. The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they don't realize they're learning until it's too late.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#15. The more time you spend with someone, the more you realize they're not perfect. Everyone comes from a different place with different problems.

Aaron Starmer

#16. People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed.

Marsha Blackburn

#17. Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But

Ilona Andrews

#18. I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack,
And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap.

Common

#19. Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves.

Karen White

#20. Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life.

Dan Howell

#21. All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

David Cronenberg

#22. The world will call you a failure. Listen well, then realize, they are wrong. After that, get up and fail better.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#23. First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation.

T.F. Hodge

#24. What is it about men and yelling at a game on television? Don't they realize they can't change the outcome, no matter how loudly they yell?

Melissa Collins

#25. Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

Madison Smartt Bell

#26. A lot of people, for example, live an anxious life. They don't realize they have a super-high level of anxiety. So we're gonna work on really writing down how anxious you feel at the moment you wake up. There's nothing wrong with it; the point is you learn to evaluate yourself and regulate yourself.

Cesar Millan

#27. Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

Orhan Pamuk

#28. You look at these primaries so far, do you realize they don't like [Ted] Cruz either, Ted - Chris [Christie]. In fact, maybe they dislike Cruz more than [Donald] Trump. But Cruz and Trump are the only guys that have won anything. The establishment candidates in this race cannot get noticed.

Rush Limbaugh

#29. I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.

Jenny Lawson

#30. No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.

Mavis Gallant

#31. Some people lose the ones they love, and then realize they never truly appreciated what they had.

Jason Pellegrini

#32. It's easier to help strangers. You don't know them well enough to realize they're assholes.

Michael LaRocca

#33. Sometimes, I think ... people we put on pedestals ... they've got that much further to fall when you realize they're human.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#34. Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

Rick Riordan

#35. Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they love me.'
'I don't know if this was like that.'
'What happened?'
He thought for a moment. 'Well. I realized I loved her.'
Hannah gasped. 'Oh God, that's so sweet.

Cammie McGovern

#36. Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.

Tony Hsieh

#37. Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

Cory Booker

#38. He is so shaggy. People are amazed when he gets up and they suddenly realize they have been talking to the wrong end.

Elizabeth Jones

#39. It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

Nancy Gibbs

#40. Hearts don't realize they've been lied to. They still love anyway.

Abbi Glines

#41. Only when the last fish is gone, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut down...will mankind realize they cannot eat money.

Greenpeace

#42. I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

Julia Quinn

#43. There are a few good ones, but most are losers who are too stupid to realize they are losers. And who are we to tell them? They are vastly superior to us, regardless of their stupidity, and they enjoy reminding us of this.

John Grisham

#44. Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

Mack Brown

#45. The weight of fear goes away as soon as we face our monsters and realize they weren't as scary as we thought.

Karen White

#46. I've done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they're going to be compared directly against other ads.

Jerry Seinfeld

#47. They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

Johnny Vegas

#48. No matter how much money you spend to make yourself beautiful - with all the products, the diets, the plastic surgery - in the end, women need to fall in love with themselves and realize they're wonderfully made.

Jessica Simpson

#49. Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#50. In your 20's and 30's, you worry about what other people think. In your 40's and 50's you stop worrying about what other people think. Finally in your 60's and 70's, you realize they were never thinking about you in the first place!

Anonymous

#51. Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.

Richie Norton

#52. Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

Dalai Lama

#53. What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

Ann Coulter

#54. When would humans realize they always started the fights that would kill them? He

Anne Bishop

#55. Some people don't even realize they're bitter. If you don't know whether you are or not, here's a quick quiz you can give yourself. If you ever wake up in the morning and the first thing you say is "Oh, fuck, not again," you might be a little bitter.

Marc Maron

#56. Do they not realize they have made me in her likeness? I think of what June is trying to lead me toward. What do they think I will do with it when I have no other options?

Megan Miranda

#57. What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.

Brit Morin

#58. There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.

Bob Anderson

#59. We have all heard the expression they wear their emotions on their sleeve, but most don't realize they are actually worn over their entire body.

D.S. Luca

#60. She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.

Fredrik Backman

#61. The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

Lester Beall

#62. Many never realize they always had the key in their pocket, so they die at the locked door, never reaching deep inside to pull it out.

Anthony Liccione

#63. Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in.

Jon Stewart

#64. One never knows when and why such people start talking; frequently they only open their mouths because they realize they haven't said anything yet, or because they're worried that if they continue to remain silent they will be regarded as insignificant.

Timur Vermes

#65. A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.

Chuck Feeney

#66. You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

Daniel J. Levitin

#67. The mortals don't realize they are funding the Amazon kingdom. Soon, we'll be richer than any mortal nation. Then - when the weak mortals depend on us for everything - the revolution will begin!" "What are you going to do?" Frank grumbled. "Cancel free shipping?

Rick Riordan

#68. Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their way.

Frans De Waal

#69. It's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some point in recent years they looked up from their international heroism to realize they'd alienated the entire world.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#70. Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

Marisha Pessl

#71. You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

Joe Biden

#72. I don't think bad people realize they're bad people. I bet they think they're good people who occasionally do bad.
Which begs the question ... how much bad can a good person do before being considered bad?

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#73. That you gotta go after the things you want, because they might not be there when you finally pull your head out of your ass and realize they're important.

Elisabeth Naughton

#74. All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

Ray Lewis

#75. I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.

Bill Hader

#76. Beneath the conversations and silences and reconnecting intimacy, I tried to reconcile the adult Hardy had become with the boy I had known and longed for. It troubled me to realize they weren't the same ... but of course I wasn't the same either.

Lisa Kleypas

#77. The world is full of people who remain in relationships that they realize they have no business in. Yet, they stay, hoping and praying for change, believing that the other person will eventually appreciate them and recognize their value.

Zane

#78. We stop looking for monsters under our beds when we realize they are inside us.

Charles Darwin

#79. The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind.

Mark Nepo

#80. A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Charles Erwin Wilson

#81. You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.

Oscar Romero

#82. Confirmation bias is probably the single biggest problem in business, because even the most sophisticated people get it wrong. People go out and they're collecting the data, and they don't realize they're cooking the books.

Chip Heath

#83. Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom.
Whitney Otto

Whitney Otto

#84. I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Alanis Morissette

#85. It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Phyllis Schlafly

#86. And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

Adam Langer

#87. It is often difficult to answer the same question repeatedly, but it is more difficult for them to realize they never seem to have answers to life's questions. Try to look at life from the perspective with which your loved one is living. It will help you see things differently.

Carol Howell

#88. It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists and agents of power, that things will begin to change.

John Pilger

#89. We must make decisions as if they affect those we've not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family.

Holly Sprink

#90. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain... Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives, they realize they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.

Borje Vahamaki

#91. My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

Norman Rockwell

#92. People who think following your dreams is a fairytale don't realize they're living the biggest fairytale of all, following the sheep

Jason E. Hodges

#93. You know what it's like to look at someone and realize they're hungry for you?

David Levithan

#94. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

Auliq Ice

#95. God, I realize they need me, but even more, they need You. I need You because this mothering thing is awesome and hard. When I look back, I won't remember the days. I will remember the moments. And I'm thankful for that because, believe me, there are days I don't want to remember!

Kristen Welch

#96. I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.

Annie E. Clark

#97. They're creepy shadow things. I didn't realize they needed proper motivation to kill.

S.L. Madden

#98. 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

Brigitte Boisselier

#99. The scenery you see when you're driving in a car is completely different from the scenery you'd see if you walked the same stretch of road. In the car you might see splashes of color; by foot, you'd realize they are butterflies.

Jodi Picoult

#100. You have to be careful," Pwnage said, "with people who are puzzles and people who are traps. A puzzle can be solved but a trap cannot. Usually what happens is you think someone's a puzzle until you realize they're a trap. But by then it's too late. That's the trap.

Nathan Hill