Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

Catherynne M. Valente

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Audre Lorde

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

Arthur Rimbaud

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

Denis Waitley

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

Deb Caletti

But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

Deb Caletti

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

Diana Gabaldon

But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

Diana Gabaldon

Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary.

Deepak Chopra

Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

Deepak Chopra

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Charles Lamb

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.

Charles Baudelaire

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.

Charlie Munger

Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.

Charlie Munger

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Charles M. Schulz

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

Bill Bailey

Contentment is knowing you're right

Bill Bailey

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Benjamin Hoff

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

Benjamin Hoff

There is more to knowing than just being correct

Chazz Palminteri

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

Charley Reese

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

Aidan Chambers

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Bill Johnson

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

Beyonce Knowles

Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

We're going to get him ready and knowing Big O, it won't take him much to get ready.

Calvin Trillin

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

Bill Nye

We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos's ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy. Another insight I really want people to consider is this: everyone has gotten this far. Everyone you meet has made it this far. Nobody is superior to anyone else from an evolutionary standpoint.

Carlos Castaneda

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?