Famous Quotes & Sayings

You don't think about why it happened. You feel for your teammate, knowing what's going through his mind when he can only watch you play.

There's a lot of fear, people are afraid, ... I'm afraid, but (also) knowing that we're not in this alone, that we can get through this.

There is no way of knowing how much of its recent moves are seasonal, though we suspect most was.

It's a shame to see it end like this, knowing we could have played a better game.

Harry Frankfurt

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

Ernest Hemingway

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Eudora Welty

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Ernest Holmes

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

Florence King

Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

Flannery O'Connor

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Fetty Wap

I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap. I'm just a background guy.

Henry Louis Gates

I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt is not heritable. It's good to know about them, but you are not responsible for them. You don't have to apologize for them. It's a process of knowing, and the more you know, the richer the sense of yourself. The firmer your foundation as a human being is

Cassandra Clare

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

Cassandra Clare

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

George Eliot

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

Gore Vidal

Style...is knowing who you are...

Gerhard Richter

Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.

Harold Perrineau

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

James D. Watson

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

James D. Watson

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

Jacques Derrida

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

James Gleick

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!

J. R. R. Tolkien

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

Ellen Bass

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Jeaniene Frost

I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn’t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.

Jennifer Grey

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

Jean-Paul Sartre

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

George Sand

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Jean Racine

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?