Realising Quotes - Page 9

• Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Influential, Coming Back

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• If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

  Mark Twain

  Departed, Would Be, Matter

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• Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, People, Ladders

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• I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Ignorance, Journey, Unexpected

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• The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

  Poul Henningsen

  Simple, Views, Democracy

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• One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

  Jill Scott

  Humility, Things I Love, Dignity

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• There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Daddy, Wife

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• If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

  Saul Williams

  Lying, Race, People

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• I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

  will.i.am

  Thinking, Boxes, Think Outside The Box

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• I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

  Romola Garai

  Hands, Want, Paradox

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• Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.

  Geoff Mulgan

  People, Details, Employers

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• Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.

  Barbara Pym

  Hurt, Night, Missing

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• Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Should Have, Fading, Belief

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Sons and Lovers”, p.367, BookRix

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• I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Crowds, Littles

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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• Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Wall, Church, Posters

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.363, Canongate Books

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• There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

  Robbie Williams

  Looks, Scared, Parenthood

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• I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

  Antonio Banderas

  Thinking, Government

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• I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

  Florence Welch

  Names, Long, Mad

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• Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

  Will Self

  Sports, Effort, Puberty

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Responsibility, Firsts, Partners

  "Amanda Seyfried admits she enjoyed Justin Timberlake love scenes for In Time". www.mirror.co.uk. November 04, 2011.

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• My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

  Maria Sharapova

  Health, Goal, Lucky

  "Come on girls, let's make a.. RACQUET". www.mirror.co.uk. June 17, 2010.

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• I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Impact, Futility Of Life, Finding Yourself

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• I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  People, Imagine, Breathe

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• I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Feels, Stills

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• I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Years, Age

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