Realizing Quotes

5026 Realizing quotes by 3069 unique authors

Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is,… — Ken Kesey
The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact,… — Augusten Burroughs
I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make. — Haruki Murakami
I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if… — J D Salinger
It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. — Barack Obama
The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of… — Clarice Lispector
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… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a… — Truman Capote
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get. — Jodi Picoult
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
...I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see,… — Immaculee Ilibagiza
The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their… — Paulo Coelho
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief… — Kurt Vonnegut
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim. — Marianne Moore
Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us.… — Paulo Coelho
Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a… — Jodi Picoult
In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main… — Saul Bellow
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole… — Anne Frank
Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important… — Marisha Pessl
This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This… — Miranda July
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another. — Desmond Tutu
Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? — J. G. Ballard
The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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