Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Archuleta

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

David Archuleta

I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.

David Starr Jordan

Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Hawkins

Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

Confucius

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

Confucius

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

David Levithan

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

David Levithan

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

David Levithan

It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to.

Debbie Harry

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

Anderson Cooper

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Anthony Powell

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Chuck Smith

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

Alfred de Vigny

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Andre Benjamin

Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.

Andre Breton

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

Angela Ahrendts

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.

Alton Brown

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him

Ann Aguirre

I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.

Andrew Bacevich

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

Christopher Paolini

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

Ansel Adams

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

Anne Rice

We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

Anne Rice

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

Andrew Sullivan

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

Andrew Solomon

I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

Andy Murray

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Anthony Hopkins

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Angie Stone

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

Amy Lee

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

Ally Carter

But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.

Ann Druyan

Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.