Quotes About Realization

She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Then I remembered something I'd seen and hadn't noticed, at the time. It wasn't the army. It was some other army.

What were these animals then? They didn't have names, but I knew what they were.

I did not realize the dreadful facts of life. I did not know that a pattern forms before we are aware of it, and that what we think we make becomes a rigid prison making us.

sternly, and I was stricken myself to realize that Lev Schuster's Yiddish phrases continued to infect my vocabulary.

Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find that their wives do have sense? Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Hasta que uno no ha perdido la reputación, no comprende que era un peso enorme y que la libertad es algo formidable.

Now for the first time since the barbecue she realized just waht she had brought on herself. The thought of this strange boy whom she hadn't really wanted to marry getting into bed with her, when her heart was breaking with an agony of regret at her hasty action and the anguish of losing Ashley forever, was too much to be borne.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is

realizing wryly that almost anything was possible when necessity drove.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

This is my dream being lived out and I'm so thankful for that.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.

I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.