Realising Quotes - Page 6

• You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Hands, Forgotten

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

  Beatrice Warde

  Wise, Simple, Men

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• I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

  George C. Scott

  Boys, Men, Years

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• "All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, World, Way

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• It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

  James A. Baldwin

  Numbers, One Day, Twenties

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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, Dream, Jobs

  "'I did have moments where I'd say, Oh my God ...'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2008.

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• The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

  Alain de Botton

  Looks, Way, Depends

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• Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Fleeting, Too Much, Values

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• I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

  Brian Molko

  Sex, Confused, Mean

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• Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Dream, Mistake, Ideas

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• Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is -- from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to all the great nurses out there!

  Rebecca Lim

  Drama, Nursing, Opportunity

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• It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dog, Artist, Tragedy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.824, GENERAL PRESS

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• [Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cat, Talking, Soul

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• As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, People, Mind

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• That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

  Stephen Bayley

  Role Models, Getting Older, Roles

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

  George Carey

  America, Support, Use

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

  Greta Scacchi

  Home, Years, People

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• I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

  Eve Arnold

  Mirrors, People, World

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• You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

  Mem Fox

  Other Cultures, Appreciate, Giving

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• It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Men, Mind

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.203, Northwestern University Press

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• My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

  Ma Jian

  Believe, Government, Ideas

  "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

  James Nesbitt

  Boys, Men, Careers

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

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• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

  Athol Fugard

  Boxing, Finding Yourself, Shadow

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

  Graham Norton

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.

  Angel Haze

  New York, Michigan, Obnoxious

  " Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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