Realize Quotes

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.