But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

- Alan Watts

I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.

- Amy Lee

I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sunbathing in their resort.

- Amal Clooney

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

- Alicia Keys

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

- Alice Walker

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

- Alice Cooper

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

- Alan Shepard

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.

- Alan Greenspan

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

- Al Yankovic

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

- Al Franken

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

- Agatha Christie

Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'

- Adam Savage

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

- Adam Levine

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

- Adam Carolla

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

- Abby Wambach