Realising Quotes - Page 17

• There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.

  Kerry Packer

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Helping

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• There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.

  James Balog

  Heart, Iceland, Doe

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• What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Children, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

  Nina Conti

  People, Scottish, Feels

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• Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Years

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• After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

  Terence Lewis

  Majority, Population, Meals

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• The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

  Louis Agassiz

  Running, Possibility, Existence

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• The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.

  Princess Diana

  Princess, Thinking, Gold

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• When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We will realise that we are responsible for all that happens to us. As we sow, so shall we reap. Rich or poor, saint or sinner, miser or philanthropist, learned or illiterate ... This is the Universal Law that applies to individuals, to whole communities, societies, nations and races. As we sow, so shall we reap.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Rich Or Poor, Race

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• If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death.

  Thomas Koerfer

  Smart, Thinking, Museums

  Source: www.koerferfilm.com

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• I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?

  Simon Cowell

  Stupid, People, Important

  "Simon Cowell's Personal UK Make Up Artist Julia Carta Talks About Working With Simon". justsimoncowell.wordpress.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  People, Champion, Looks

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• If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  War, Stupid, Kids

  "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

  Meredith Ostrom

  Jobs, Thinking, Planning

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• Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dream, Differences, Expectations

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean I do like the feeling of waking up on my own, having this moment of like: "Oh, f**k, I hope I can do this today!" Because it makes you realise that you're working with material or you're working with a director or you're working with a cast and they're keeping you on your toes.

  Charlize Theron

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

  Celia Green

  History, Important, Lasts

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?

  Mina Loy

  Lying, Pet, Upheaval

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• I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

  Michael Meacher

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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• The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

  Patti Smith

  Betrayal, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

  Max Hastings

  Play, Ridiculous, Comedy

  "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

  Arabella Weir

  Teacher, Opportunity, Luxury

  "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Space, Handicapped

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• The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Children, War, Party

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, January 23, 2009.

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• I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad.  As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour.  Germany does not want war of any kind.  Germany wants real and abiding peace.

  Rudolf Hess

  Military, Real, War

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