Realizing Quotes
5026 Realizing quotes by 3069 unique authors
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I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and…
— Paulo Coelho
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
— John von Neumann
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Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.
— Stephen Chbosky
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I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange…
— William Gibson
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And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
— Woody Allen
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The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.
— Jean Webster
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I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
— Dalai Lama
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Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget…
— Glenn Beck
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Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the…
— Neil Gaiman
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One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual…
— Jack Kerouac
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We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and…
— Alan Watts
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This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of…
— Alan Watts
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
— Oscar Wilde
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Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in…
— Rumi
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Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like…
— Graham Greene
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who…
— Aldous Huxley
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You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board,…
— Audre Lorde
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