Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldrich Ames

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

Albert Einstein

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

Albert Einstein

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

Aaron Levie

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

Abbas Kiarostami

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

Adrienne Rich

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

Todd Lowe

Vampires are pretty frightening. Knowing they can 'glamor' you is pretty weird. And you shake hands or hug them and they're cold. I wouldn't like that.

Return when called, knowing the outlet of the path (death), the ascent, the advance, the road of every living man!

Nobody is going to remember what I did. But I will have the satisfaction of knowing what I did.

Jane Austen

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

Jane Austen

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

Janet Jackson

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

Miley Cyrus

The last thing I ever want to do is disappoint my parents. If something ever happened to one of my parents, I'd want them to go knowing I made them proud.

Vince Spadea

I lost some valuable things, but the worst thing is knowing someone was in my room while I was sleeping.

I don't regret the shot. I regret not knowing that I needed to move. It's frustrating.

Paula Jones

I feel much safer knowing that's where my son is going.

I feel so bad, ... I didn't shoot from a truck; I didn't knowingly do anything that was illegal. This is embarrassing.

I can't sleep at night no more knowing that we could have lost him. There's just no words for it.

I can leave knowing that this school is operating smoothly.

Carl von Clausewitz

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Carey Mulligan

One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's three hours, and whether you're completely off or you're just horrendous, you've got to find a way to leave an impression. There's not that terrible thing that you get when you're making a movie, where you get in your car at the end of the day knowing that something you're not proud of was immortalized on film, and you can't fix it because they won't reshoot it.

C. S. Lewis

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

C. S. Lewis

Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Bryant H. McGill

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Bryant H. McGill

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Celia Imrie

I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

Celine Dion

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story

Alain de Botton

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

Aimee Mann

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

Charles Colson

True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

Charles Babbage

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Channing Tatum

With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.

Bre Pettis

Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.