Quotes About Realization

I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

I didn't harbor a huge desire to become a chef until I graduated from college.

I directed a short series for Hulu called 'Paloma,' and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting. It gave me a new bolt of energy in terms of my interest in filmmaking because it made me realize how collaborative filmmaking can be and also that you're not just limited to one job.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

I have my faith in God. I was told to be humble before him. Don't boast about what you have done. Don't put credit in your own hands. You have to realize He got you there.

Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she'd stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city.

It really is true. It took this awful situation for us to realize it. Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen

I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I'm about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don't have the brains or energy to fix them.

And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. That fast. You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

And I didn't realize. I didn't take into account. Just. You know, this is real to you. I mean, I know that, we know that, but we don't at the same time. We really just never will. I don't think. Totally get that. You spend so much time discussing and debating it becomes... But. Well. I'm sorry.

It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now.

This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out.

You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

When you finally stop an itch and realize it's because you've ripped a hole in your skin

occurred! Amy was shot! But then I realized

And then I knew I didn't love Amy anymore

Sixty seconds is a long time to know you are dying.

Amma and I were sick just like Marian. It had to be made that obvious to me before I finally understood—nearly twenty years too late.

This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out. I

Mama Mo does not insist. She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such: