Realising Quotes - Page 24

• O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Wind, Knowing

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• It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]

  Joseph Addison

  Gratitude, Fall, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.255

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• Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it gives no more than analogies, or metaphors, they do not realise that they are stating the proper aim of Catastrophe Theory, which is to classify all possible types of analogous situations.

  Rene Thom

  Science, Giving, Analogies

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• If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Mean, World Government, Rights

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• In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

  Neal Barnard

  School, Eggs, Meat

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• You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Girl, Zoos, Animal

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• Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Past, Flames, Trials

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ambition, Mean

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• In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Trying, Denial, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

  Alan Parker

  Thinking, Feelings, Tvs

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

  Eoin Colfer

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer on Doctor Who". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

  Bootsy Collins

  Stars, School, Glasses

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• One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

  Patrick Carney

  Mirrors, People, One Day

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Phones, Gaps, Would Be

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

  Helen Dunmore

  Doubt, Young

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• When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

  Paul Daniels

  Years, Long, People

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• My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

  Alice Eve

  Dad, Character, Thinking

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• So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

  Cee Lo Green

  Growing Up, Band, World

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

  Cee Lo Green

  Cute, Beautiful, Jokes

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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• People are much more interesting than people realise.

  Peter Ackroyd

  People, Interesting

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• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  Abbie Cornish

  Children, Thinking, Dysfunction

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

  John Bercow

  Different, World

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• The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

  Antony Beevor

  Dream, People, Together

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• You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Weather, History, Historical

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• Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, Player

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