Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Lou Boudreau

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

John Green

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

John Fowles

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

Linus Torvalds

When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.

Leo Tolstoy

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

Leo Tolstoy

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Leo Tolstoy

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

Leo Tolstoy

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Lauren Conrad

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

Lewis Hamilton

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

Joseph Campbell

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

Joseph Campbell

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

Karl Rahner

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Juliette Binoche

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

John Major

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

John Barth

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

Jimmy Carl Black

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

Jim Palmer

There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

George MacDonald

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

Josh Hartnett

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

Josh Hartnett

I'm looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate to on all levels - someone I can bounce my stuff off. Right now, though, I'm not searching for that. I couldn't possibly handle it at this point. But I still like knowing it will be out there sometime later.

Katherine Anne Porter

We are born knowing death.

Joyce Meyer

We cannot know God apart from His Word...

Josh Smith

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

Josh McDowell

Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.

Josh Radnor

Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.

John D. MacDonald

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

Ludwig Feuerbach

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.

Lori Greiner

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

M. Night Shyamalan

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.