Best 1416 quotes in «realizing quotes» category

I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.

I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what you choose to get out of them, and I started to collect photographs.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

I came to realize this weird projection: you are much more passionate about hating something outside of you when you know that something is also in you.

I certainly do believe in monogamy. I don't believe that it's for everyone. I don't believe that marriage is for everyone. So much of life is begging to be chosen how it wants to be lived. Much more than most of us realize.

I can look back at my darkest periods and realize that these were the times when the Lord was holding me closest. But I couldn't see His face becasue my face was in His breast...crying.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having a good time making them.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.

I did a series of dark, desperate women shoots, my exhibitions weren't being well received, and then 9/11 happened, and I said to myself, "Have I gone too far?" Now I look back and realize going out on a complete limb at the time was right - well, people seem to be really responding to my message now, anyhow!

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. ‘I do,’ he vowed.

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

I didn’t realize that pretending to be this ‘Hills Heidi,’ this spoiled rich girl who I wasn’t, would almost destroy me.

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

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.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.