Top 100 Knows That Quotes
#1. One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
Andrew Solomon
#2. The professional knows that Resistance is like a telemarketer; if you so much as say hello, you're finished.
Steven Pressfield
#3. Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I am a massive Frank [Turner] fanboy.
Timothy Omundson
#4. Who knows that each day is not a gift but a prize that is to be seized
Jessica Khoury
#5. Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.
Irving Kristol
#6. I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the production business. What you did before is irrelevant. Everyone knows that.
Don Davis
#7. Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
Lawrence Eagleburger
#8. Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities ...
Paulo Coelho
#9. It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.
Michael Herr
#10. It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it
Oscar Wilde
#11. There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#12. Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Honestly, William, time?' his mother had snapped. 'Distance? Those things have nothing whatsoever to do with love. Who knows that better than you?
Marisa De Los Santos
#14. win the tournament, Harry knows that, don't
J.K. Rowling
#15. A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#16. Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.
Sam Raimi
#17. Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
Joyce Carol Oates
#18. A great thought is no different than an old-time steam locomotive. When it is heard from far away, everyone knows that something spectacular is coming!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. It is not what one suffers that kills one, but what one knows that other people see that one suffers.
Anthony Trollope
#20. A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
Criss Jami
#21. Everybody knows that. The missing step is always the next.
Oscar Lopes
#22. Anyone who has ever been in love, truly, magnificently in love, knows that it is torture. It is ugly and messy and brings out the absolute worst along with the best in you. It hurts because it forces you to confront every aspect of yourself. It forces you out of your comfort zone.
Jessica Gadziala
#23. A Warrior, A Winner has no fear. His only objective is to change the atmosphere, because he knows that then he controls the outcome.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#24. In reality, anybody who's a woman knows that you've got your good days and bad days, just like anybody else. I've been lucky with a lot of shows that I've worked on, where they are comfortable with the idea that women are not just one thing, and we can be contradiction.
Jessalyn Gilsig
#25. I love Manchester. Everyone knows that - I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#26. Everyone But an Idiot Knows That The Lower Classes Must Be Kept Poor, or They Will Never Be Industrious
Arthur Young
#27. Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But beyond that it is entirely up to you. You've got to do for yourself all the seeking and finding concerned with what you want to do. Anyone but yourself is useless to you there.
Eugene O'Neill
#28. There's a moment in every woman's life when she knows that for once, she stood on her own two feet, faced the world, and flipped it off. I just had that moment, and it feels fucking awsome.
Rachel Firasek
#29. I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.
Will Arnett
#30. Love is not controlling your loved ones' behavior. Love knows that since the people you love share the same universal consciousness, they will access their truth in time.
Cloris Kylie
#31. I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.
Julie Roginsky
#32. Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#33. Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.
Richard Stallman
#34. The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots.
Steven Pressfield
#35. Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.
Kelly Link
#36. Everyone knows that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school.
Lauren Barnholdt
#37. Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett
#39. For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.
Madeleine L'Engle
#40. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music
then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#41. Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.
Sheryl Sandberg
#42. My face was growing hot, but I kept talking. "You're the only one who believes in me most of the time."
He shook his head. "You keep us going. Everybody knows that."
"But you're the one who keeps me going. You're what I'm fighting for in all this.
Tarah Benner
#43. When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.
Will Durant
#44. Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
James Russell Lowell
#45. A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace
#46. But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#47. You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
Wm. Paul Young
#48. When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
Vijay Kumar
#49. Michael Cole, The Rock knows that you have never, EVER, had a piece of poontang pie!
Dwayne Johnson
#50. Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.
Pierre Trudeau
#51. All these years the people said 'He's acting like a kid.' He did not know he could not fly, so he did. Well he's one of those that knows that life is just a leap of faith. So spread your arms, hold your breath and always trust your cape.
Guy Clark
#52. Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.
Henry Mitchell
#53. Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.
Tom Robbins
#54. But by the way he's looking at everything in the room but me, I think he knows that he didn't really explain why. And by the way I'm looking at everything in the room but him, I know that I don't really need him to.
Gayle Forman
#55. I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.
Elena Ferrante
#56. Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.
Cathleen Schine
#57. Chief of the Inner Station,' he answered in a short tone, looking away. 'Much obliged,' I said, laughing. 'And you are the brickmaker of the Central Station. Everyone knows that.' He was silent for a while.
Joseph Conrad
#58. A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk.
Eraldo Banovac
#59. The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. Anna, who has always been devout, knows well that Despair is a mortal sin, and now she knows that it is a luxury, as well.
Robertson Davies
#61. I don't know what to say to this Clare who is old and young and different from other girls, who knows that different might be hard.
Audrey Niffenegger
#62. D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.
Alexandre Dumas
#63. All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can't defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill ... and from that, freedom grows.
Bobby Sands
#64. Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.
Ezra Taft Benson
#65. I am like a prisoner who is trying to escape from jail by the wrong route. For all one knows, that door may stand open, although I continue to dig a tunnel with a teaspoon.
John Cheever
#66. I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.
Bertrand Russell
#67. Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'
Anthony Bourdain
#68. And for the Doctor, time is literally running out. He knows that Compassion is dying. He's aware that he has lost his own ability to regenerate. He's worried by Fitz's fake German accent.
Andy Lane
#69. A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn't impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#70. Dependence on the pastor turns the church inward instead of keeping its focus on reaching out. Everyone knows that the addition of more people threatens this great relationship with the pastor and creates competition between parishioners for the pastor's time.
Jim Griffith
#71. Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.
Raheel Farooq
#72. Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.
Jose Andres
#73. He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.
Wilferd Peterson
#74. We live in a world of evaluations, assessments, and measurements, but Jesus turns his gaze deeper because he knows that what is measurable can be faked.
Scot McKnight
#75. A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.
James Baldwin
#76. Every stylish girl knows that when the sun goes down, the heel goes up.
Nina Garcia
#77. Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.
Garth Stein
#78. It was like giving a homeless kid a night in a luxury hotel. It only made a bad situation worse. Once a person knows that kind of pleasure, they just wanted it again. And again.
Santino Hassell
#79. I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
William H. Seward
#80. Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
Amy Vanderbilt
#81. Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.
Henry Ford
#82. He knows that kind of love. It is what he feels for Gallicina. It is the world reformed, made new, each time the lover sees the beloved's face. It is the miracle which makes the cosmos dance, which keeps the planets in their courses, which fuels the fire of the stars. It is salvation.
Susan Palwick
#83. Intellectually he knows that the blood is being pressed to the back of his body, pooling in the back part of his cerebellum and flooding his kidneys. He hasn't done enough medical work to know what that means, but it can't be good.
James S.A. Corey
#84. I find it not hard to make friends, but it's definitely different when I go somewhere like summer camp and everyone already knows that I'm in 'Hunger Games' ... My life is still pretty normal, and I still have some really great friends.
Willow Shields
#85. I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
Salman Rushdie
#86. There's no changing the way people are. No one changes, everyone knows that.
Susan Sontag
#87. I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.
Corrine Brown
#88. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
#89. The mind knows ... that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.
Neal Stephenson
#90. The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#91. Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.
Judith Martin
#92. Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.
Sheri L. Dew
#93. The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
Theodor Reik
#94. Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
#95. Consciousness creates form. It is not the other way around. All personalities are not physical. It is only because you are so busily concerned with daily matters that you do not realize that there is a portion of you who knows that its own powers are far superior to those shown by the ordinary self.
Jane Roberts
#96. Anybody who knows me knows that I'm just here to put a smile on people's faces.
Jason Mitchell
#97. [She] knows that it's fear that keeps her love in check. but what if falling in love i a sign not of weakness but of courage? what if it isnt falling or crashing but taking a leap?
Julianna Baggott
#98. But any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.
Thomas Merton
#99. He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.
Epicurus
#100. Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
Hanya Yanagihara
