Realised Quotes

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving

I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.