Realised Quotes
387 Realised quotes by 331 unique authors
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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been…
— Robert Helpmann
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Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.
— Douglas Mawson
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I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
— Ramona Koval
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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…
— Linton Kwesi Johnson
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I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What…
— Deborah Levy
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When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor.…
— David Suchet
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The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
— Rowan Williams
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I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine.…
— Ruby Wax
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There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what…
— Andy Summers
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I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote…
— Alan Moore
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I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims.…
— Mario Testino
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The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of…
— Stefan Molyneux
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do…
— Danica Patrick
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Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my…
— Mark Gatiss
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Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that…
— Unknown Author
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
— Maj Sjowall
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Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
— Oscar Wilde
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