Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Forbes

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Malcolm Forbes

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

Gavrilo Princip

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed

Gabrielle Zevin

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

Julie Mehretu

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

Joy Page

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

Joyce Brothers

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

Julianna Margulies

I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.

Julianne Moore

I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.

K. D. Lang

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

Joyce Meyer

We may not know what to do, but it is sufficient to know the One who knows. We all like specific direction; however, when we don't have it, knowing God is faithful and ever true to His promise, and that He has promised to be with us always, is comforting and keeps us stable until His time is right to speak to us more specifically.

Paul Tournier

God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

Paul Klee

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.

Patrick Swayze

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

Frank Luntz

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

Maggie Stiefvater

Some people see what they want to see.

Maggie Stiefvater

Knowing what I was, and wanting me, anyway.

Maggie Stiefvater

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.

Haruki Murakami

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Haruki Murakami

But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.

Haruki Murakami

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.

Haruki Murakami

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

Harlan Ellison

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

Gustave Courbet

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Gustav Mahler

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

John Dryden

Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.

Lupe Fiasco

My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

Herbie Hancock

You could never tell what was going on with Miles. You'd always leave the session not knowing if they got anything of any value because it was always so different.

Max Bill

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

Max de Pree

We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

Edward de Bono

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Jonathan Maberry

Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

Jonathan Franzen

He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.