Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Burnet

. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .

Jerry B. Jenkins

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

Jennifer Aniston

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

Jeanne Moreau

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Gloria Feldt

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Hugh Jackman

The hunger will give you everything and it will take from you, everything. It will cost you your life, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. But knowing this, of course, is what ultimately sets you free.

Keith Olbermann

If he does not sue, he is a drug user, a repeat steroid user, a knowing steroid user. He has to sue for everything that the next 50 years of merchandising is worth.

If he could get it fixed, knowing Troy, he'll be back out there. But this is unfortunate. We'll just have to move forward.

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.

Neale Donald Walsch

A Soul Knowing: You are the sum total of the Body, Mind, and Soul, and each of these aspects of you has a purpose and a function, but only one has an agenda: the Soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

Neale Donald Walsch

You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine the new understanding, and , it it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.

Neale Donald Walsch

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.