Knowing Quotes

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
Jack Dee

Life, Wanted, Spent

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
Jack Dee

Education, Important, Kids

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
K. D. Lang

Women, Fear, Powerful

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.
Nicholas Hoult

Time, Around, Bands

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
Gael Garcia Bernal

Life, Best, Alone

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
Fiona Shaw

Love, Happy, Afraid

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.
Bryan Clay

Morning, Single, Through

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper Lee

Around, Somebody, Folks

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.
Jeff Gordon

Love, Through, Country

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
David Hackworth

Enemy, Down, Die

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.
Michael Hutchence

Life, Love, War

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.
Elizabeth Olsen

Learning, Around, Else

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald

Atom, Atoms, Physicist

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald

Made, Poor, Universe

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 O'Brien

Good, Loser, Mad

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Yourself, Past, Small

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
Major Taylor

Life, Sympathy, Deep

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.
Hilary Duff

Music, Feeling, Single

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
Ingrid Newkirk

Best, Death, Society

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
Frank Langella

Rather, Exciting, Painful

Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.
Derek Jacobi

Work, Good, Sexy

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
Wiz Khalifa

Family, Different, Place

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
Meghan O'Rourke

Mother, Nothing, Die

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
E. L. Doctorow

Mind, Feeling, Book

Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus Unum - one people out of many.
Mike Rogers

Great, Pride, Gave

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
James Lane Allen

Work, Thoughts, Results

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
Bill Condon

Time, Business, Movie

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
Joy Page

True, Inner, Compass

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
Laura Marling

Age, Wisdom, Confused

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
William Kingdon Clifford

Good, Truth, True

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