I Quotes
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“I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.”
“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.”
Source: Some Memories of Drawings
“I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.”
“I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.”
“I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.”
“I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.”
“I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans”
“I realized that I'm lonely without her and she's incomplete without me. There will be no end to our love story..”
“I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)”
“I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.”
“I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.”
Source: The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
“I realized that I needed to know more about the business side of things. I don't like feeling uneducated about things, and feeling uneducated about my own business felt ridiculous.”
“I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.”
“I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.”
“I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.”
“I realized that I sat in an empty bar in filthy, wet clothes with a drippy nose, probably red-rimmed eyes, and the most I could say I’d accomplished was that I was now congested. Oh, and one of the handsomest, nicest men I’d ever met cradled my face in warm, caressing hands with soft, sympathy in his brown eyes.”
“I realized that I spent more time thinking about my problem clients than my great clients. I had to stop feeding the drama of the problem clients-and other problems in my life.”
“I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.”
“I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.”
“I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.”
“I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."”
“I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.”
“I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.”
“I realized that I was connected to Africa.”
“I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator”
“I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.”
“I realized that I was not healed enough to be loved fully.”
Source: Malikat ul Qalb : The Queen of his Heart
“I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into their cars. I went to doctors’ offices and touched magazines that had been touched by sick people.”
Source: Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”
Source: Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“I realized that I was with my mate, the one person I'm supposed to be with for the rest of my life. And I realized that he saw the darkness in my beauty, and I see the beauty in his darkness.”
Source: Loving the Darkness
“I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.”
“I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become.”
“I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.”
“I realized that I would never have corrected somebody who said “you can feel the food.” That was how Owen would end up with students who said “savor,” while I would end up with students who said “papel iss blonk.”
Source: The Idiot
“I realized that I'd rather die with you than live with someone else.”
Source: Blood Bound
“I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.”
“I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.”
“I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”
“I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.”
“I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.”
Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence
“I realized that if I was going to understand the uniqueness and depth of God's love for me, I had to mentally separate my relationships with people from my relationship with the Lord. God's love should never be distorted or diminished by comparing it with the friendship or love of any human who has let me down, rejected me, betrayed me, or lied about me.”
“I realized that if I went snowboarding, you can't think of anything else when you're snowboarding. You can't hesitate or think about anything other than not falling off and breaking your neck. If you want a holiday where you're not gonna think about work and you're not gonna think about anything, snowboarding is the best way to do it. Or skiing, I guess. I don't ski, so I don't know.”
“I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.”
“I realized that if we aren't vigilant, we can move through our entire lives feeling smaller than we actually are—by playing it safe, by unconsciously giving away our power, by dimming our radiance, by not recognizing there is always so much more waiting for us on the other side of fear.”
Source: More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are
“I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.”
Source: You Can Get There From here
“I realized that if you avoid the sin, you will also avoid the fun.”
Source: The Pink Cadillac
“I realized that if you never do anything new, you never learn anything. And learning things changes you. Even if those things aren't what you intended to learn. You're never the same after an adventure, Kennedy." She tapped a finger over her heart. "In here you change. And in here you change," she said, tapping her temple that time. "I had to learn some things--make some mistakes--on my own. I thought." She gave a soft laugh."The thing is, once you have Leo Landry in your life, you're never really on your own again.”
Source: Crazy Rich Cajuns
“I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.”
“I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.”
“I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.”