Quotes of Realised - somelinesforyou

“ I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. ”

- Harriet Tubman

“ If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done. ”

- Betty Friedan

“ If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out. ”

- John Glover

“ You did then what you knew how to do, And when you knew better, You did better. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ The New Orleans I knew ain't no more. ”

- Michael Davis

“ Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it. ”

- Klaus Kinski

“ The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed. ”

- Kate Moss

“ The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground. ”

- Tina Fey

“ I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character. ”

- Charles Barkley

“ Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ I wish I knew what I know now before. ”

- Rod Stewart

“ I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Alfred Victor Vigny

“ When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. ”

- Emo Philips

“ When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting! ”

- Bob Mould

“ Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. ”

- John Lennon

“ I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability. ”

- Betty Cuthbert

“ Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave. ”

- Dominic

“ The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad. ”

- Paul Reubens

“ Do you remember the Platonic dialog in which Socrates argues the definition of wisdom with Hippocrates? As far as I'm concerned, Hippocrates was the first hippy, a guy who was smug because he thought he knew something. Socrates was wise because he realized how little he knew. ”

- Bill Evans

“ I think that the secret is, again it brings me back to balance and a kind of mathematics. I realised this, and it was a shocking realisation, it was quite terrifying: that when I was playing Hamlet, I realised there was no way round it, for the two-and-a-half hours of that play I had to be as intelligent as the most intelligent man in dramatic poetic literature… ”

- Ben Kingsley
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