Famous Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I've reached a milestone. This has been my passion. It's an accomplishment for me, knowing that the work I'm doing (is) going to save someone's life.

Ben Gordon

I don't think about it, but it's in the back of my mind. Knowing that this is a business, any day you can get traded.

Hideki Matsui

He's my senior and I respect him. Knowing that and having to make that decision, it was very difficult.

William Wordsworth

How men livedEven next-door neighbors, as we say, yet stillStrangers, not knowing each the other's name.

Chris Jones

I can't complain. It's pretty nice knowing I have another two years plus the remainder of this year with those two.

Hunter S. Thompson

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Howard Rheingold

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

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.

Pat Conroy

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

Patrick Ness

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Patrick Rothfuss

Small facts lead to great knowing.

Patricia Arquette

I was raised by somebody with the perception of trying to allow me the space and show me the importance of knowing who I was and figuring out who I was and appreciating who I was.

Lily Collins

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

Leon Panetta

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on,

Leon Panetta

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

Laurence Fox

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

Maria Bartiromo

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Mike Brown

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

Miguel de Unamuno

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Naomi Judd

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.