Realising Quotes - Page 35

• It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

  Gunter Grass

  Fantasy, Stills, My Own

  "Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best", www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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• For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.

  David Baddiel

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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• I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

  Trent Reznor

  Despair, Bottom

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• Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fall, People, Deathbed

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.45, Penguin

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• Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.

  Michael Carrick

  Play, Special, Talent

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• In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

  Lee Hall

  Wall, Thinking, Play

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• The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.

  Bhagat Singh

  Opportunity, Political, Brotherhood

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• The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

  Ali Shariati

  Men, Humanity, Feels

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• The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Equality, Giving, Perspective

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• Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Queens, Thinking, Government

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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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• Realise this: one day your soul
  will depart from your body and you will
  be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us
  and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,
  because you don't know where you came from and
  you don't know where you will be going.

  Omar Khayyam

  Waiting, Soul, One Day

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• I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Thinking, India, World

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• The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this
  match or lose it.

  Kevin Keegan

  Winning, Games, Gone

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• When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!'

  Thierry Henry

  Games, Bye, League

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• The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Hero, Struggle

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• As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Lying, Community, Experts

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• There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

  George C. Scott

  Self, Loathing, Recognition

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• As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.

  Nelson Mandela

  Years, Advice, Progress

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• I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

  Roman Abramovich

  Dream, Football, Crazy

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• The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Mind

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• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Running, Life Is Short, Thinking

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• At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

  Thierry Henry

  Sports, Giving, Imagine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Growing Up, Russia, People

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• See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

  David Lynch

  Photography, Ideas, Together

  "The interview: David Lynch" by Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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