Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerome K. Jerome

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Jeffrey Eugenides

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

Jim Elliot

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Jim Elliot

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Jean Houston

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

James A. Baldwin

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

Jackie Stewart

Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.

Jack Ruby

It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.

Chris Pronger

I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.

Chris Hadfield

In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

Francesca Lia Block

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

Jewel

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

Jerome Bruner

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

Gary Oldman

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

Gary Oldman

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

George Horace Lorimer

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

Chris Hoy

If you go to the line knowing you have given it absolutely 100% in every training session you have done, you know that there's nothing else you could have done and that helps you to deal with the pressure.

George Stigler

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

George Soros

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

George Orwell

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

Jean Cocteau

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

Jean Cocteau

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Gail Simmons

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frederick Buechner

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

Frank Smith

We are learning all the time - about the world and about ourselves. We learn without knowing that we are learning and we learn without effort every moment of the day. We learn what is interesting to us... and we learn from what makes sense to us, because there is nothing to learn from what confuses us except that it is confusing.

Fernando Pessoa

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Feist

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.