Realising Quotes - Page 3

• Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Father, Years, Changed

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• Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

  A. S. Byatt

  Hate, Mirrors, Self

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• We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

  George H. W. Bush

  West, East, Operations

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• Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

  Mary J. Blige

  Sometimes

  "Q&A: Mary J Blige". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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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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• Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

  Bjork

  People, Sake, Conservative

  "'Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Acceptance, Animal, Men

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• So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

  Steven Biko

  Made, Prelude, Black Consciousness

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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 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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• Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

  Georges Duhamel

  Humble, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

  Sheena Easton

  Mother, Smart, Taken

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• I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

  Heather Mills

  England, Would Be, States

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• Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, People, Leader

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• People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

  James McAvoy

  Nice, People, Goes On

  "Trying to be good". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

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• My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

  Jo Brand

  Dad, Teenager, Men

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• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

  Amin Maalouf

  Uncles, Moving, Egypt

  "A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

  Simon Hoggart

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self Esteem, Issues, Lucky

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• I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

  Larry Hagman

  Travel, Kids, Texas

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• At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

  Mark Haddon

  Jobs, Children, Fiction

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  Ian Hacking

  Race, Hacking, Humans

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• I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

  Delta Goodrem

  Hair, Long, Important

  "'I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed'". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Ideas, Important, Astonishment

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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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