#lise

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#being nice #bully #children #especially #generally

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#only #our #perfection #realise #through

I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#as far as #change #come #decision #england

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#generous #god #his #love #loves

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#first #get #going #help #i

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#going #i #i think #lightly #matured

What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#each #everything #fighting #footballers #got

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#big #cannot #expensive #had #happened

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#city #done #edge #fields #five

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#conference #disappearing #forest #gift #had