Top 100 Quotes About If You Knew
#1. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.
Wallace Stegner
#2. Nothing was worthless. Not if you knew who needed it. Not if you knew how to salvage it.
Rob Thomas
#3. If you knew the kind of little miracles happening every moment you breathe in, you wouldn't be able to handle it. A valve could close and not open; an artery could split, you could die. At any moment. It's nothing but miracles inside your tiny city.
Sally Thorne
#4. If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the greatest director I've ever worked with.'
Max Greenfield
#5. If you knew that you only had one day to live, what would you think about-your car or favorite pair of shoes or would it be the more everyday joys that occupy your mind?
Kristine Carlson
#6. You could find out most things, if you knew the right questions to ask. Even if you didn't, you could still find out a lot.
Iain M. Banks
#7. Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would you continue to eat animals? One in one hundred? One in ten?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#8. Relationships are ruin by secrets, but in the same time secrets make more mysteries and more work. If you knew well this person, you won't go over this data and this about stuff...
Deyth Banger
#10. To be truly brave, I believe a person has to be more than a little stupid. If you knew how hard or how dangerous something was going to be at the onset, chances are you'd never do it.
Ann Patchett
#11. If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#12. If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
Bill Janklow
#13. If you knew the trouble we've had because Howl will keep falling in love like this! We've had lawsuits, and suitors with swords, and mothers with rolling pins, and fathers and uncles with cudgels. And aunts. Aunts are terrible. They go for you with hat pins.
Diana Wynne Jones
#15. But if you knew about this ... conspiracy, why did you cooperate with it? Why did you allow Hae-Joo Im to get so close to you?
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?
Tell me.
We see an end beyond the endgame ...
David Mitchell
#16. The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better ...
Joseph Delaney
#17. how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.
Octavia E. Butler
#18. The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the world contained more than people trying to hurt other people. It had beauty, too, if you knew where to look
and remembered to open your eyes.
Jeaniene Frost
#19. Del Usion
If you knew the person
He thinks he is
You'd have to admit
He's one very special guy.
Laurence Overmire
#20. By the way, if you knew how you sounded when you hissed, you wouldn't do it: you sound like such berks when you do that.
Christopher Hitchens
#21. If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.
K.d. Lang
#22. If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper plate by broasted potatoes. But it would be a long word.
William Gibson
#23. If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.
Peace Pilgrim
#24. Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know
Neil Young
#25. If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.
Bill Johnson
#26. No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die - someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?
Billy Graham
#27. If you knew which levers to pull, you could stop time just long enough to save the things you love most.
Ariel Sabar
#28. After some time spent with me, people start saying: "It's as if you knew what I was thinking". They never consider this as a fact.
Robin Sacredfire
#29. Integrity- What you would do if you knew you would never be found out
Chuck Gleason
#30. What if you knew that you would die tomorrow?"
"What do you mean? I live my life at the risk of dying at any time and that's called life.
Shuno
#31. God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.
Timothy J. Keller
#32. It was so hard to live the right kind of life, even if you knew what it was.
Ann Brashares
#33. Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
John Lasseter
#34. I understood your every thought. It was as if you knew me before I knew myself." Sanary-Samy
Nina George
#35. If you knew how it feels to run after someone for a brief snatch of time, how the world stops spinning, just for a moment, when you hold them in your arms, and then starts again so fast that you fall to the ground, dizzy. If you knew how every hello hurts more than a hundred goodbyes.
Jessica Brockmole
#36. I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are? (p. 173)
Jack Kerouac
#38. What if you knew before you were born that love will not be a given? If you learned that rejection would be the blueprint for your entire life? If you were the one calling the shots, would you still choose to be born?
Ina Catrinescu
#39. Cade seemed a little too sure of his conclusion from too little evidence. "Cade. If you knew something I didn't, you'd tell me, right?"
"I know a lot of things you don't, Zach. We don't have that kind of time.
Christopher Farnsworth
#40. What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?
Brian Tracy
#41. There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
Randy Pausch
#42. If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn't slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn't you know?
Rumi
#43. -"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."
-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".
Graham Greene
#44. And you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.
Flann O'Brien
#45. When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.
Natalie Massenet
#46. Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .
Philip Jose Farmer
#47. If you knew at twenty what you know at thirty-five, what a marvellous life you could have; on the other hand, you might find that you couldn't be bothered to have any life at all.
Hilary Mantel
#48. If you knew your ending, how would you live your beginning?
J. Nell Brown
#49. What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.
Martha Beck
#50. If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.
Jaggi Vasudev
#51. You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors ... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way' ... Keep moving forward.
Joel Osteen
#52. If you knew what I know about the power of giving you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Gautama Buddha
#53. He said, 'Charlie, how would you treat people if you knew you didn't have to fix them? If you knew that was God's job, and all He was asking of you was show them His love, maybe tell them some things He wanted them to know?
Dan Walsh
#54. As the endlessly patient husband explained of his volatile wife's outbursts some years later: "If you knew how little harm it does me, and how much good it does her, you wouldn't wonder that I am meek.
Harold Holzer
#55. If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#56. If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.
Stephen Richards
#57. If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.
Joe Trippi
#58. If you knew all about it, it wouldn't be the leading edge.
Karl H. Pribram
#59. Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
Annie Dillard
#60. But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it?
Haruki Murakami
#61. If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me.
Thomm Quackenbush
#62. Right now it might seem draconian to charge for access to information we have come to expect for free, but it would feel very different if you knew what other people were also paying you at the same time for information service you have fractionally contributed to in the course of your life.
Jaron Lanier
#63. I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it!
Daniel Logan
#64. You wouldnt care so much about what people think about you if you knew how little they did
Phillip C. McGraw
#65. This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home
I'll spend forever wondering if you knew
I was enchanted to meet you too.
Owl City
#66. Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.
Bryn Greenwood
#67. If you knew you were
going to lose your memory
but you could choose five things
you'd never forget, what would they be -
a certain face, a taste, a scent,
a touch; how deep
in this, the middle
of your life?
Kristen Henderson
#68. If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.
Joseph J. Ellis
#69. If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered.
Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?"
Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat."
That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.
Cassandra Clare
#70. Madness it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.
Dante Alighieri
#71. What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.
Frederick Lenz
#72. Professor Lupin?" he said. "If you knew my dad, you must've known Sirius Black as well." Lupin turned very quickly. "What gives you that idea?" he said sharply.
J.K. Rowling
#73. If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?
Robert Breault
#74. In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what's about to happen. When you feel helpless, you're far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.
Chris Hadfield
#75. If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!
Sophia Amoruso
#76. Besides, you could still find honor among thieves, if you knew the right ones.
Kit Rocha
#77. What would you do in life if you knew you could not fail? What would you deeply regret never risking?
Mike Rabe
#78. Instead of an ugly scratch of a scar, he'd given her a beautiful piece of himself. A snowflake. Small and discreet, noticeable if you knew to look, but otherwise really just for her. A gift.
Laura Kaye
#79. I hate the concept of likeability - it gave us two terms of George Bush, whom a plurality of voters wanted to have a beer with, and Facebook. You'd unfriend a lot of people if you knew them as intimately and unsparingly as a good novel would. But not the ones you actually love.
Jonathan Franzen
#80. I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
Joyce Carol Oates
#81. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Elisabeth Elliot
#82. Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.
Dave Mustaine
#83. Nobody should know what's waiting for them. If you knew your future, why ... it would take all the fun out of living.
David Llewellyn
#84. And turkeys are a bird. A very nervous bird. You'd be nervous too if you knew that one day you'd get your head cut off and ... filled with stuffing.
Bob Saget
#85. Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
Willie Nelson
#87. The sound of the blues, rhythm and blues, country music, is what we lived for, black and white alike. It gave you strength to sit on one of those throbbing Allis-Chalmers tractors all day if you knew you were gonna hear something on the radio or maybe see a show that evening.
Levon Helm
#88. If anything could be a book, there was no telling what you could learn, if you knew what to look for. Smooth river stones spelled out across a mossy floor. Lines drawn in the sand. Or inscribed on the side of a fallen log, half-obscured by twigs and mulch: This is a book.
Traci Chee
#89. My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
Phil McGraw
#90. Seems you had your mind made up that I couldn't do anything ... so I didn't care if you knew or not.
Maggie Brendan
#91. If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.
John Powell
#92. That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need some more of you. She
Harper Lee
#93. If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.
Caroline Kepnes
#94. If you knew at the outset what you understood at the end, would you make the same choices, take the same risks, accept the same sacrifices? No. No one would. You can't appreciate the weight of that burden until after you've assumed it. You can't comprehend what it really means.
Barry Eisler
#95. Tell me this
if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life
if you knew you'd never have a line published
would you still go on writing
would you?'
'Of course I would,' said Emily disdainfully. 'Why, I have to write
I can't help it at times
I've just got to.
L.M. Montgomery
#96. You're screwed, scum, and not in the way you'd like, either. Irony's a bitch, isn't it?"
"You wouldn't say that if you knew who I am."
Vol's bounty hunter laughs. "Trust me, I've seen an asshole before. Drop the sword now.
Nenia Campbell
#97. Listen to hypotheses as they plead their cases before you, but remember that you are not a hypothesis, you are the judge. Therefore do not seek to argue for one side or another, for if you knew your destination, you would already be there.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#98. Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.
Clare Boothe Luce
#99. I thought if you knew. you'd kill him.
I nearly did. I nearly killed you too. The trouble with death is - his lips twisted - it's so final.
Marie Treanor
#100. A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
Pat Conroy
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