Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

Joyce Carol Oates

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Julie Delpy

Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't always mention this part of directing, but it's also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.

Richard Wright

I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

Richelle Mead

I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.

Richelle Mead

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

Russell Crowe

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Romeo LeBlanc

If I am to be known for anything as governor-general, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Tyler Blackburn

Knowing the right questions is better than having all the right answers.

Tyler Perry

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

Truman Capote

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

Rick Warren

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

Rick Riordan

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

Paul Lynde

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

Mary Catherine Bateson

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.

Piper Laurie

Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

Pink

True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.

Pope Francis

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

Pete Wentz

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

Paulo Coelho

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

Paulo Coelho

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

Paulo Coelho

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Peter Singer

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Peter Singer

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

Rachel Carson

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

R. A. Salvatore

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

Plotinus

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Philip Yancey

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

Pope Benedict XVI

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.