Realised Quotes

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

James D'arcy

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

David Rudisha

Running, Dad, Father

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I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

Catherine Tate

Clothes, Hair, People

"Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.

Clinton Kelly

Inspirational, New Year, Choices

FaceBook post by Clinton Kelly from Aug 26, 2013

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

Ramana Maharshi

Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Sharon Creech

Courage, Fear, People

Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Emo Philips

Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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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 way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Dream, Long, Goal

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Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.

Alice Stewart

Country, Science, Should Have

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I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.

Taeyang

Thinking, Who I Am, People

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So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

John Newcombe

Fire, Negative, Way

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He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

Nora Roberts

Boys, Men, Humanity

Nora Roberts (1998). “Sea Swept”, p.17, Penguin

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I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

Jeff Kinney

Taken, Ideas, Born

Jeff Kinney (2012). “Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 6)”, p.120, Penguin UK

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But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

Caitlin Moran

Years, Want, Honest

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It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

Suketu Mehta

Dream, Country, Cities

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I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in your sleep like you were distressed and I panicked and ran to your side. You grabbed my arm in your sleep and pulled it up against your face and went back to sleep. I didn't want to ever move.

Abbi Glines

Moving, Sleep, Night

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Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.

Isaac Marion

Winter, Transition, Lasts

Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

Caitlin Moran

Depressing, Art, Mean

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Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked. Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?" Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.

Maggie Stiefvater

Daughter, Blue, Evil

Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)”, p.34, Scholastic Inc.

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After I began working, I realised there's no end line. I believe that money has nothing to do with your personal success. On the face of it, I'm the biggest capitalist of all. I have all the riches. I'm the living proof of what stardom should be in material terms. But I've never sold my soul. I've not done anything which I didn't want to do. I've not done films for money. I'm not saying this with arrogance but I've never asked for a film.

Shahrukh Khan

Believe, Soul, Arrogance

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I had an epiphany where I realised that there are song titles everywhere - in advertising, in conversations with people at the grocery store - and every time I open my mind to that and find titles, I then weave a story around that.

Bonnie McKee

Song, People, Mind

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Peeta" I said "Stay with me" I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always

Suzanne Collins

Said, Stay With Me, Heard

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When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

Paulo Coelho

Dream, Inspiration, Warrior

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I was really sick and I walked outside of the bus and realised; oh no I'm not allowed to be sick. I'm not allowed to say; sorry no I can't pose with you for a photo because I'm sick. I am a super human now, or I have to be one.

Katy Perry

Sorry, Sick, Bus

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