It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
Lenny Kravitz

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
Lenny Kravitz

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Margaret Mitchell

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino

I realize that nothing's as it seems.
Sting

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
Billy Corgan

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.
Lisa Marie Presley

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
Sting

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
Jock Sturges

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
Tracey Ullman

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Barbara Walters

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Amy Tan

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
Chuck Klosterman

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Bodhidharma

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Bodhidharma

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Winona Ryder