Top 100 One Never Knows Quotes

#1. He knows how it is to leave Ireland, did it himself and never got over it. You live in Los Angeles with sun and palm trees day in day out and you ask God if there's any chance He could give you one soft rainy Limerick day

Frank McCourt

#2. Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

Abbas Kiarostami

#3. Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#4. It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

James Clavell

#5. There's something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should." "You know it? Why don't you live it?

Ayn Rand

#6. The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

Adolf Hitler

#7. He was an animal. Everyone knows never to corner one that's injured...even if it is just his pride.

Kayla Krantz

#8. One never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

Stevie Smith

#9. Lord alone knows." George stood up and dropped his empty mug into the sink. "The mystery of one's children is never-ending.

Mark Haddon

#10. Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Rumer Godden

#11. Define the life you want.
Never allow yourself to be bullied.
No one knows your destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.

Christopher Plummer

#13. All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Paul Fussell

#14. There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

Mira Grant

#15. Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

Emo Philips

#17. Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#18. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#19. Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

Anita Loos

#20. Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

Milton Avery

#21. One never knows when inspiration will strike. Inspiration happens in a flash so pay attention. And then Go with it. Immediately.

Ruth Yunker

#22. We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Clint Eastwood

#23. Never mind what I knew, nothing seems to matter now
Ooh, who I was without you, I can do without
No one knows where it ends, how it may come tumbling down
But I'm here with you now
I'm with you now

Sara Bareilles

#24. You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his duty to protect you from the inevitable, I do not know ... unless he knows something we do not ...

Charlotte Munro

#25. Fortunate is the one who knows the name of their heart. They are the ones whose hearts are never truly lost. They can always call their heart back home.
Do you remember the name of your heart, Simon Lewis?"
"I think so," Simon whispered.

Cassandra Clare

#26. The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Albert Einstein

#27. Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

Alice Hoffman

#28. Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.

Winston Graham

#29. I look back at James one last time, and he gives me his signature smile, wide and cocky. but it's not real. Sometimes I think it's never real. James is the best at hiding his pain, disgusing the feelings. He knows what it takes to stay out of the Program. He'll keep us safe.
He promised.

Suzanne Young

#30. One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Thomas Jefferson

#31. I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Kumail Nanjiani

#32. One never knows when one is old for certain.

Enid Bagnold

#33. No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it.

Italo Calvino

#34. One never knows what life may have in store
for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Paulo Coelho

#35. If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.

Huston Smith

#36. One never knows when one might walk into a tale. - Ardaz

R.A. Salvatore

#37. The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

Oscar Wilde

#38. One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Karel Capek

#39. One never knows be it days, weeks or years, when the pupil is ready, the teacher appears.

Robert Fisher

#40. Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the day before. It's like a negligent parent who only knows one half of who you are. It never sees how its absence changes people. How different we are in the dark.

Tahereh Mafi

#41. It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Gustave Flaubert

#42. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

Basil W. Maturin

#43. The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.

Maxine Cheshire

#44. To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

Rebecca West

#45. One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

Graham Greene

#46. Why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Gaston Leroux

#47. Never underestimate the joy of being married to the one man at the party who knows how to dance.

Claire Cook

#48. Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#49. Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

Vincent Canby

#50. If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

Geraldine Brooks

#51. I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.

Paco Rabanne

#52. After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know.

Mary Doria Russell

#53. Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.

Mordicai Gerstein

#54. Jean Grey, the Phoenix ... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

Famke Janssen

#55. A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.

Faina Ranevskaya

#56. This is President Obama's number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

Michele Bachmann

#57. Horace smiled. Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring.

N.D. Wilson

#58. Your truth: No one knows it better than you. But never be discourage in seeking others in discovering your deeper truth.

C.C. Wyatt

#59. ...one never knows what interesting fact will turn up when researching a book!

Ellen Prager

#60. Never let people tell you what to believe in. No one knows everything.

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#61. One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

Alfred Bester

#62. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Paulo Coelho

#63. Smile ... Even when your life is at its worst, you never know when you'll meet the one who takes your breath away!

Jessica Biel

#64. One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#65. and I had spent a few days debating whether or not Michael was actually gay or just English. With the advent of metrosexuals and Europeans running around Manhattan, one never knows.

Polly Courtney

#66. Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.

Kate Winslet

#67. I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'

Gerald Asher

#68. This is how things come to pass in the world,' one of the princes is supposed to have said. 'Blood flows one way in life and another way in song, and one never knows which flow is the right one.

Ismail Kadare

#69. One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

Louis L'Amour

#70. A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.

Taryn Manning

#71. Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.

Paul Martin

#72. The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles Dudley Warner

#73. One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

Jackie French

#74. And I understood why he came and why I couldn't go, not just then at least, because one never knows if what one sees will disappear forever.

Kevin Powers

#75. One never knows how loyalty is born.

Robert Morse

#76. Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

Laozi

#77. No one knows you like I do, Bunny. We may have been apart for ten years, but if you've felt for me even a tenth of what I've felt for you over the years, then we were never really apart. You've been with me every second of every day.

Alexa Riley

#78. On ne sait jamais!
One never knows!

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#79. That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

John Diefenbaker

#80. In one hundred years people will still remember our kind of love; a love that knows no bounds - that surpasses all reason - and will never, never die. (Loving Lily Lavender)

DeAnna Kinney

#81. [T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Sonia Sotomayor

#82. Should is a dirty word. No one should do anything for you.You deserve nothing more then what you earn.
Reality Boy is not angry, though. Because Reality Boy knows he deserves all kind of shit he never got

A.S. King

#83. Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Oswald Chambers

#84. One never knows, do one?

Lawrence Sanders

#85. Andrew is going to be one of my problems. Dean thinks it's great fun
he knows what is in the wind as well as I do. He is always teasing me about my red-headed young man
my r.h.y.m. for short.
"He's almost a rhyme," said Dean.
"But never a poem," said I.

L.M. Montgomery

#86. Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.

Jayne Mansfield

#87. The theologian can ask far profounder questions because he knows more about God; by that same knowledge he knows that there are depths that he will never know. But to see why one cannot know more is itself a real seeing; there is a way of seeing the darkness which is a kind of light.

Frank Sheed

#88. One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

George Sand

#89. One never knows when one might have to defend against ... " Bounty hunters? Soldiers? Enforcers? "Opossums.

Lindsay Buroker

#90. Complaining about your luck is not allowed. Rokutarou, you're not the only one that matters but they leave that aside and do their best.If you start comparing misfortunes, it would never end. What's the meaning in that? Everyone knows you had a hard time.

Chica Umino

#91. One might open the book idly, but one never knows what treasures one might find.

Julie Klassen

#92. One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

Malcolm Forbes

#93. Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

William Poundstone

#94. One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.

Edouard De Pomiane

#95. Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

Richard Whately

#96. Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

Stephanie Mills

#97. To make him important in one's life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.

Carrie Fisher

#98. Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#99. A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.

Mahatma Gandhi

#100. One never really knows who one's enemy is.

Jurgen Habermas

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