Realising Quotes - Page 29

• Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.

  Anthony Eden

  Real, Europe, Political

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1962). “Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs”, London : Cassell

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• If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

  Jessica Chastain

  And Love, Moments, Persons

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

  Chris Murray

  Giving, Missing, Different

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• All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

  Lewis Carroll

  Sadness, Gay, Childhood

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.967, Delphi Classics

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• Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

  Lewis Carroll

  Death, Character, Men

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.265, Delphi Classics

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• We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Sleep, Animal, Men

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics

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• They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

  Roy Keane

  Sandwiches, Drink, Prawns

  2000 On spectators in the corporate boxes at Manchester United games. In the Sunday Times, 31 Dec.

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• When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.

  Jim Fixx

  Self, Feelings, Empowerment

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• I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Lucky

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• Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Generations, Limited Resources

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

  Michael Sheen

  Helping, Failing, Process

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

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• A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.

  Neil Strauss

  Beautiful, Thinking, Guy

  "Pick-up techniques - interview with Neil Strauss". Interview with Kirstin Innes, www.list.co.uk. January 31, 2008.

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• When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

  Ryan Tedder

  Successful, People, Accidents

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• Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Inspiration, Hero, Urban Music

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• As you get older you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

  Rumer Willis

  People, Superhero, Parent

  "Question time: Rumer Willis". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

  Alexander Wang

  Pieces, Inspired, Audience

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• Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

  Amy Waldman

  Creativity, Thinking, Naps

  "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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• When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

  Ben Marcus

  Writing, Emotional, Levels

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

  Denise Mina

  Writing, Political, Stories

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• Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.

  Diego Klattenhoff

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, London Olympics, Events

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• When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.

  Annie Besant

  God, Oneness, Matter

  Annie Besant (1904). “A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology”

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• When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

  Chris Ofili

  Art, School, Thinking

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

  Petra Stunt

  Taken, Worry, Healthy

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• You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Dark, Fire

  "Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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