Realizing Quotes
5026 Realizing quotes by 3069 unique authors
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In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker.…
— David Levithan
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I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that…
— James A. Baldwin
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At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the…
— John D. MacDonald
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Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated…
— Iris Murdoch
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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I…
— Thomas Sowell
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And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better…
— Hayley Williams
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Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii…
— Jim Butcher
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The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural.…
— Kate Jacobs
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Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story…
— Hermann Hesse
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You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special…
— Ellen Hopkins
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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if…
— Lawrence Durrell
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without…
— Luis Bunuel
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Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small…
— Paul Auster
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It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I…
— Elizabeth Scott
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the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .
— Simone Elkeles
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