I Realized Quotes - Page 26

• I realized we'd pulled into a parking garage. We drove around two levels, pulled into a spot, then immediately pulled out again. Along with four other black Bentley SUVs. "What's going on?" I asked, as we headed back toward the exit with two Bentleys in front of us and two behind us. "Shell game," he said.

  Sylvia Day

  Games, Two, Black

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.161, Penguin

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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

  Rick Riordan

  Water, Twenties, Too Late

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• When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all meaning. I'd lie awake saying the words over and over to myself--'sugar,' 'mirror,' 'whisper,' 'dark.' 'Sister,'" he said softly. "You're my sister." "It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true." "And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still be true too.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Kids, Dark

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• Because I realized during the past few days that I can’t leave doubt in anyone’s mind about to whom you belong. Especially not yours.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Past, Doubt, Mind

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Secrets Of A Summer Night: Number 1 in series”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  War, Battle

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• she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

  Sharon Shinn

  Faults, Mines

  Sharon Shinn (2001). “Summers at Castle Auburn”, p.191, Penguin

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• I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

  Beverly Pepper

  Being Alone, Creativity, Artist

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• I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Political, Actors, World

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• I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

  Katie Couric

  Single, Block, Voice

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• I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Children, Future, Eye

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• I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.

  Danica Patrick

  Running, Fall, Athlete

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• I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Change, Nature, Life Changing

  Shirley MacLaine (1975). “You Can Get There From here”

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• Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself I thought I had lost, and which I constantly find new things from. Writing also includes the possibility of living many lives as well as living in any time or world possible. I can satisfy my enthusiasm for research, but jump like a calf outside the strict boundaries of science. I can speak about things that are important to me and somebody listens. It's wonderful!

  Virpi Hameen-Anttila

  Writing, Important, Research

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• Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Running, Stupid

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight,
  And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light.
  And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right,
  There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.

  Paul Simon

  Life, Girl, Morning

  "Song: '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' ('Still Crazy After All These Years')". 1975.

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• Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Summer, Country, Children

  "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

  Paul Cayard

  Sea, Sailing, Earth

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• I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

  Chris Evert

  Determination, Hard Work, Oysters

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• They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

  Selena Gomez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "elena Gomez Inspires At 'We Day': I Lost Sight Of Who I Was". www.foxnews.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

  Gene Sarazen

  Golf, Ifs And, Earning

  Gene Sarazen (1950). “Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen”

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• For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

  Pink

  Badass, Bad Ass, Long

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• One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.

  Glenn Healy

  Hockey, Nhl, Driving

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• If I'd just paid money to watch a soccer game, I'd want to kill someone too (once the buzz wore off and I realized where I was, because the only thing that would make me pay to watch a soccer game is perhaps a half gallon of whiskey).

  Tom O'Brien

  Soccer, Games, Watches

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• There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I can't fight every battle. Three hundred minutes in penalties is way too many. Way too many.

  Rick Tocchet

  Hockey, Fighting, Thinking

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