Realizing Quotes

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It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil. — Maureen Johnson
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person… — Max Planck
A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and… — Christopher Isherwood
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot,… — Malcolm Gladwell
There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was… — Sylvia Plath
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go… — Chuck Palahniuk
As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie,… — Lauren Oliver
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Exactly. You can shoulder all the blame and become a martyr. Provided anyone knows what or who you're martyring for. Or you can accept that… — Maria V. Snyder
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it… — Richard Siken
The older you get, the better you realize you were. — George Carlin
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no… — Roald Dahl
I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets… — Helen Fielding
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased… — W. Somerset Maugham
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious… — Tim Ferriss
Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how… — Anthony Bourdain
One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is… — Karen Marie Moning
You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the… — David Levithan
I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you… — David Levithan
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. — Curtis Sittenfeld
And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and… — Lauren Oliver
Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to… — John Green
My parents will be sad for a while, and they may even blame themselves, the way they do now. Eventually they'll come to peace with… — Julie Anne Peters
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that… — Lev Grossman

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