Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Carlos Castaneda

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

Ashton Eaton

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

Bryant H. McGill

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Albert Camus

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Amelia Earhart

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Anne Lamott

I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

David Platt

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

Dan Brown

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

David Bowie

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

Ludwig von Mises

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

John Dewey

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Loretta Swit

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go

George Harrison

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

George Wald

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

Kim Stanley Robinson

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

Herbert Marcuse

The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.

Elizabeth Gilbert

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

Joseph Campbell

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

P. D. James

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

Marianne Williamson

Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

Leon Jouhaux

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

Ken Wilber

One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.

Morihei Ueshiba

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

James Salter

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Ludwig von Mises

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.