“I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.” PeopleThinkingRealizingHappeningsImplicationsDoorwaysBackyards Author:Josh Fox
“You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.” MatterMotivationalRealizingHappeningsNo Matter WhatCheerfulCheerfulness Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years on, others begin to realize that, really, something extraordinary was actually happening.” PeopleYearsArtWaitingRealizingHalfMovementPromiseHappeningsExtraordinaryDozenAlways Waiting Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
“We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.” IfsWayGivingLooksWholeMomentsEyeFacesRealizingPiecesFrontsTearsHappeningsShadowBreathsCamerasPhotographerDisappearRemarkableSplitsRescue Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.” StillsFactsCultureRealizingSubjectsHappeningsWesternDimensionsDeniedTabooWestern Culture Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.” WayNeedsLooksDifferentMomentsUseFormSongRealizingMemoriesWrittenPerspectiveHappeningsObstaclesGrassTherapySongwritingDifferent PerspectiveGreenerDocumentation Author:Chuck Ragan
“What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.” WorldStatesTodayLawPoliticalSocialProcessRealizingHealingClearHappenedDiseaseHappeningsDecadesMedicalPrimariesWarfareLocksSymptomsParadigmWorld TodayPolitics Today Author:Marianne Williamson
“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.” PeopleNeedsFeelsTryingMomentsFeltRealizingAttentionBrainFocusImaginePlansWorstStageHappeningsCalmTerrorConsistentThat MomentSurprisingThreadSurvivingWorst Moments Author:Amanda Ripley
“The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.” PeopleThinkingMayStillsEndsWholeYoungRealizingWalksTakenHeardTerribleNormalHappeningsSickTrainDrivenGasTornOld PeopleTruckChamberTerrible ThingsNormal LifeAuschwitzVery CleverGas Chambers Author:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
“It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.” PeopleRealizingPleasureSecretFailingSpecialHappenings Author:Adolf Hitler
“Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize.” PeopleWritingMeanUseChristianTermRealizingBornFineColdBecomingHappeningsTraditionConversionClassicEtcJustificationEvangelicalBorn AgainRegenerationVerdictSynonym Author:N. T. Wright
“It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.” KnowsBelieveWellsStillsSoulNamesRealizingCrimeWillingJudgmentHappeningsFellowsCommittedTongueBreatheBeing TrueDoubtedCountrymen Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.” IfsCultureCausesRealizingPlansModernHappeningsTragedyStrategyWarningAdoptedModern Culture Author:William McDonough
“The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny.” I CanRealizingCommonSituationMaterialsConversationHappeningsHmmm Author:Chris Rock
“One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.” IfsDreamMotherStrongForceRealizingMiddleAchieveHappeningsDaughterEastProgressiveMiddle EastHarem Author:Fatema Mernissi
“What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.” ThinkingWantMomentsSufferingCausesRealizingFailingConflictHappeningsCuresResistingInterpersonal Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]...." That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if you're not gay, an eleven- or twelve-year-old wouldn't even remember that that happened.” PeopleIfsYearsHardMightRememberCoursesRealizingChurchSinHappenedPrayingGayTenHappeningsNineTwelveEleven Author:Stephen Karam
“I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.” PeopleHumansSometimesRealizingViewsTvsEgoHappeningsEvolve Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."” LooksRealizingMusicianHappeningsJazzWowJazz MusicTime PassesJazz Musician Author:Carol Friedman
“The question is not, "Is climate change happening?" Nor is the question, "Is climate change man-made?" Rather, we need to realize itʼs already here, and start asking, "What are we going to do about it?"” MenNeedsMadeRealizingHappeningsAskingClimateClimate Change Author:Jeff Orlowski
“Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.” DreamHandsTurnsOpportunityRealizingHappeningsWake UpLovelyGet OverBad DreamLovely Things Author:Shauna Niequist
“People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.” PeopleHeartHas BeensSaidStatesWantedUsedChoicesRealizingMy HeartHappeningsDoctorsThirdsAccessBrokeAbortionCould Have BeenClinicMaking ChoicesProfundityBroke My HeartFundraiserReceptionistsThank You For Coming Author:Lizz Winstead
“It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.” TryingYearsEnoughBigsFormUsedFightingProcessRealizingHalfTechnologySecurityDangerComfortableHappeningsToolsBoxesTerrorismWarfareNational SecurityCiaDetachedPentagon Author:Barack Obama
“[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.” WritingEndsStoriesLastsRealizingLinesHappeningsParagraphHorrific Author:John Darnielle
“Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term and long-term ruin; the ruining of the city that is happening in the short-term, and the ruining of culture and history that has happened over decades. When you see a building that says so much about the culture that built it being destroyed, there are a lot of emotions. You feel a lot of anger when you see a building being destroyed and realize that it's just a small part of what's going on in the entire country.” FeelsLongCountryCultureTermRealizingEmotionCitiesHappenedBuildingHappeningsBuiltChinaDecadesDestroyedRuinsLong TermShort TermSmall Parts Author:Sze Tsung Leong
“My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.” PeopleLostRealizingWallHappeningsBuiltAdviser Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.” PeopleLooksRealizingChallengesEnvironmentGrewGoodnessGrew UpHappeningsOptimismCoreAlways HappyHappy ThingsOptimism And Hope Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.” PeopleFeelsFirstsMeanPersonsSelfRealizingEconomyHappeningsI RealizedEmployedRecessionsCutbacks Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.” FeelsI CanRealityRealizingChancePayAttentionHappeningsPay Attention Author:Ricky Williams
“When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.” StoriesPastRealizingFiguresHappeningsYour PastInvisible Monsters Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.” IfsHandsLightMovingFaithFallFearRealizingSadnessFrontsAnxietyHappeningsShadowForgottenDearCloudsFrightenedPalms Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days.” KnowsHeartSoulEnoughLife IsRealizingPerfectForeverMiddleBrokenHappeningsCommitYour SoulMatesEnough TimeLive ForeverSoul MatePerfect DaysNot Enough Time Author:Shonda Rhimes
“Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet. You walk into a room and you realize something's out of place before you've bothered to properly look. I felt that happening now." "Sam's thoughts on page 304 of Linger.” GivingLooksSometimesEyeFeltRealizingWalksRoomsBrainPagesHappeningsPicksPhrasesBothered Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.” ThinkingWellsLooksHappensFallRealizingLove IsTakenCryWallElementsHappeningsPaintRidiculousSomething You Love Author:Richard Siken