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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children. -- David Beckham
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. -- Christy Turlington
Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien. -- Lindi Ortega
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural. -- Olivia De Havilland
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948. -- Albert Einstein
In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is -- Veronica Roth
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. -- Noel Redding
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. -- P.D. Ouspensky
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner! -- Max Lucado
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. -- David Hockney
I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go. -- Jeffrey McDaniel
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated. -- Brian Eno
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't. -- Moon Unit Zappa
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. -- Paulo Coelho
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult. -- Abdul Kalam
Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war. -- Kamal Haasan
There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms. -- Jeanette Winterson
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless. -- Christopher Reeve
When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that. -- Sebastian Vettel
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of. -- David Lynch
I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more. -- Antonio Banderas
I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. -- Leonard Cohen
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish. -- Nicole Scherzinger
My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it. -- Steve Truglia
The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process. -- Taylor Swift
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come. -- Vanessa Paradis
Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent. -- Will Self
At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S. -- Michael Moore
There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all there is. -- Martin Rees
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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
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Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches - anything bigger or smaller and you know you're going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core. -- Arjun Rampal
We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. -- Holly Johnson
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black. -- Jack White
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad. -- Florence Welch
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
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
Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I was very gangly and limby, and would sweep things off the table without realising how big my wingspan was - just out of control. A lot of women write to me and say, 'I'm six foot and exactly the same happens' - that's been lovely therapy. -- Miranda Hart
I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out. -- Katherine Heigl
More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring. -- Barack Obama
I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it. -- Kristin Hersh
Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse. -- Robert H. Schuller
Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, -- Sarah Beeny
I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally. -- Chris Murray
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. -- Trevor Dunn
As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect. -- Harriet Walter
We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own. -- Derren Brown
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. -- Archie Kalokerinos
I guess that my activities inspire people and that I offer opportunities without realising what is going to happen next. -- Eddy de Clercq
One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising. -- Gustav Holst
I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy. -- Roman Abramovich
At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always. -- J. K. Rowling
Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia? -- Joe Galuvao
I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. -- H. G. Wells
Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself. -- Hillary Clinton
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. -- Dani Shapiro
Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience. -- Tom Felton
There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream. -- Richard Branson
You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous. -- Jacques Villeneuve
I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen. -- Christine Bottomley
Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality -- Paul Isaacs
I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising, -- Miriam Makeba
I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all. -- Clive Anderson
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent. -- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago. -- Marc Almond
I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it. -- David Bowie
Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything. -- Angeline Trevena
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal. -- Jeremy Clarkson
No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt. -- Gordon Brown
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
People's most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result. -- Bianca Nogrady

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