Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Albert Schweitzer

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

Debi Thomas

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

Debbie Ford

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

Donald Barthelme

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...

Douglas Coupland

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

Donald Trump

Entrepreneurs are motivated by independence as well as challenge, knowing they are ultimately responsible for themselves. Monetary success is certainly helpful, but it often becomes more of a score card than anything else.

Donovan McNabb

Patience and rest are key. Knowing how your body feels. You're the only person that knows how your body feels. The way of going about it is expressing it to your trainers and your coaches so you won't damage anything else.

Donny Osmond

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

Davey Havok

As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It's really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.

Darlene Cates

Its really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that its not going to be in a positive way.

Danny Boyle

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

Daisaku Ikeda

So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

Dan Scanlon

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

Dan O'Brien

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

Dan Millman

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

Cormac McCarthy

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

Common

God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge will be Jehovah God.

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.