Best 1416 quotes in «realizing quotes» category

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.

If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.

If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.

If you do your job right, no one realizes you did your job, and that's a good thing. You strive for that.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.

If you want to be happy in your life with love you have to realize nothing ever goes perfectly. Life fluctuates, life is a frequency, it's an undetermined thing, it moves and you have to be able to accommodate that.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.

I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

If you're stuck in a situation that's painful or there's something that makes you angry, it can enable you to step back from your own experience of it and realize that this is just a part of what it is to be human. It can allow you to accept it a little bit more and make you feel like it's less unfair.

If you've managed to remain a Luddite - one who resists technology - you're surrounded by people who don't, so you're affected more than you may realize.

I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.

Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

I have always wanted an adventurous life.  It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

I have come to realize it's not the QUANTITY of LOVE but instead the QUALITY

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.

I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.