Top 100 Quotes About Knowing Someone
#1. Knowing someone is not enough
You need to understand them
Because knowing and understanding are different
Subhasis Das
#2. Knowing someone's mind is insight;
knowing someone's heart is discernment;
knowing someone's soul is understanding.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#3. Besides, I won't be able to rest knowing someone's watching me." They
Kiera Cass
#4. But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through - the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different.
Jodi Picoult
#5. It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
Robert Stone
#6. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it and understand.
Sarah Dessen
#7. Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
Bill Bailey
#8. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Ronald Reagan
#9. I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.
Jodi Picoult
#11. It is a humbling thing knowing someone cannot live without you, knowing that though they've betrayed you, they wish for nothing but absolution.
Pierce Brown
#12. The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.
Michelle Tea
#13. There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
Vic Mignogna
#14. Knowing someone isn't coming back
doesn't mean you ever stop waiting
Toby Barlow
#15. Love is knowing someone so deeply, understanding her so completely, that you can finish her thoughts without hesitation, confident in reading her face, her body, even her slightest gesture means something to you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. Knowing someone is the first goal of therapy. Modulating emotionality - whether by relatedness or psychopharmacology or both - is second. Therapy's last and most ambitious aim is revising the neural code that directs an emotional life. (176)
Thomas Lewis
#17. Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.
Nora Roberts
#18. I know part of knowing someone is being mean to them or whatever.
David Levithan
#19. by knowing someone's needs and doing them a favor, you own them. You will be able to get them to do a lot more for you, further down the line, when you need them to.
Daniel Smith
#20. Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.
Dianne Feinstein
#21. Love has nothing to do with knowing someone. And, everything to do with need.
Katherine Owen
#22. Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.
Thomas C. Foster
#23. Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.
Wally Lamb
#24. Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac
Patricia Briggs
#25. It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.
Ross Kemp
#26. I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#27. I think the things about being with someone and knowing someone so well is that the things you love about them, you always will. The things that drive you crazy will always drive you crazy about them.
Elizabeth Rodriguez
#29. Intimacy wasn't sex, she realized. It was knowing someone.
Sarah Morgan
#30. Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#31. Sometimes beauty, or lack thereof, gets in the way of really knowing someone
Amy Harmon
#32. I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.
Lauren Oliver
#33. Knowing someone else is going through the bizarreness of pregnancy with you makes it feel a little less impossible.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#34. He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as that, and as stupid and complicated. It's terrible. It's like knowing someone you love is dead but not having the body to prove it. He loved me. I know it.
Roddy Doyle
#36. Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
Harlan Coben
#37. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
#38. The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.
Andrei Makine
#39. No good coming from the truth? Knowing the truth is always good. And better that it's us discovering it than someone else, right?
Hugh Howey
#40. You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.
John Barnes
#41. Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.
Robert Hawkins
#42. I've found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about it. I've never sat around, waiting for someone to tell me to take charge. I just do it.
R.K. Lilley
#43. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself.
Francis Chan
#44. Behind every door, someone is standing without knowing that it is open.
M.F. Moonzajer
#45. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#46. I felt the joy of knowing that in some small way I had fought back against someone who wanted to rule me against my will. I said no.
Doris Mortman
#47. Just because someone doesn't act or look unhappy doesn't mean their lives are perfect." He raises his eyebrows. "There's this method of dealing with things that involves keeping your chin up. Knowing whatever crap you're dealing with right now isn't going to last forever. All things pass.
Kelley York
#48. I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.
Anna Quindlen
#49. There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.
Beyonce Knowles
#50. It was cool to wake up knowing your day would include someone else in a way that was integral to life.
Kristen Ashley
#51. It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!
Tisha Campbell-Martin
#52. 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.
Alton Brown
#53. Knowing what is on someone's mind is like getting to the bottom of a river, and knowing what is on someone's heart is like getting to the bottom of an ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.
Cynthia Lord
#55. As far as Jacqs was concerned, he was doing a kindness by not letting Quin get confused about his feelings. Liking someone and not knowing if they liked you back was one of those levels of hell.
The Only Way Out Is In
Lyn Gala
#56. It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.
Joe Jamail
#57. They'd been impressed by facts about Skelly instead of by him. And knowing things about someone is not the same as knowing him.
Tim Kreider
#58. If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.
Patrick Stewart
#59. One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.
Ariana Grande
#60. I just want to die knowing that I've made a difference in the world... or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.
Eloise Dyson
#61. God is Someone who creates something out of nothing. He takes emptiness and creates wholeness, He takes darkness and speaks light. Because of this, we can come to God empty and weak knowing that He takes us and with His power makes something out of nothing.
Vicky Beeching
#62. I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.
Moe Howard
#63. Scared people don't really mean what they say, they're just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what's happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it's out of their control.
Chris Dietzel
#64. The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#65. Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. defenestration," which derives from "fenestra," the Latin word for "window," refers to the act of throwing something or someone out of the window. Knowing this, we can impress our friends with statements like, "Sally finished her apple and defenestrated the core.")
Doug Erlandson
#67. Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.
John Bradshaw
#68. Her greatest joy in life was knowing that her importance to the team was by no means small and that, as narrow as that world might be, she had been granted a definite place in it. Someone needed her.
Haruki Murakami
#69. What the hell?" Helena objected. "And would someone please flick a Bic or rub two sticks together? I want to die knowing exactly what killed me.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#70. Someone in the clan taunted her about you going into heat and explained exactly what you were doing. She cried for days, knowing you were with other women.
Laurann Dohner
#71. There's some kind of peace that comes with knowing that for every person who is waiting to be found, there's someone out there searching.
Julie Murphy
#72. -loving someone meant knowing that your life would be worse without them in it.
-Caleb (Benny)
Anna Carey
#73. Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.
David
#74. No matter the content, the message is clear: we are here for their enjoyment and little else. We have to walk through the rest of our day knowing that our discomfort gave someone a hard-on.
Jessica Valenti
#75. Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.
Uzoma Nnadi
#76. My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.
Lee Daniels
#77. In three weeks my betrothed is coming here, to the castle. But Rose, I can't marry her. I tried to believe that I could love her, and I'm sure I could have had I not met you. But knowing you, Rose, loving you as I do, I can't possibly marry someone else. So I came up with a plan.
Melanie Dickerson
#78. Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right.
Bryant McGill
#79. How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!
Pam Munoz Ryan
#80. I know that I can forever walk the streets, drive the freeways, and be alive knowing that I created something with someone whom I love so very much that is such a powerful force. I would love for people to hear it the way I hear it [Forest Green].
Andy Kim
#81. We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.
Sonia Johnson
#82. Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.
Lisa Gardner
#83. It still stung, knowing that he would rather see me with someone else than give me my moment, but I had to be mature about it. It wasn't about me.
Mina V. Esguerra
#84. Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.
Ryan Reynolds
#85. There's no acceptance in watching someone die. There's only a lifetime of regret from knowing you couldn't stop it from happening.
Jewel E. Ann
#86. Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman
#87. It wasn't logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn't like country music than knowing one way or the other.
Liane Moriarty
#88. Eddis stared at him for a long time, knowing that forgiving someone because you have to is not forgiving him at all.
Megan Whalen Turner
#89. I want to try to do something myself, knowing that when I have nothing left, someone will take me the rest of the way
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#90. One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.
Richard Louv
#91. Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
Orhan Pamuk
#92. If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!
Beth Ramsay
#93. I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.
Patrick Stump
#94. There's always someone who knows something.
Stephen King
#95. Find someone else to toy with. We both know I lack experience, so I don't know how to play the game without getting hurt. Besides, I hate games. I prefer knowing straight up what's real and what's bullcrap.
Jeaniene Frost
#96. It's not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It's really about trust.
- Jameson Rook, Heat Rises
Richard Castle
#97. Love means knowing when to hold someone hostage." Grinning,
Bijou Hunter
#98. They said when you are in love you will be happy but when the day comes i fell in love with someone.i regret the day that i met him.. it gives to much pain inside i feel everything is wrong.
knowing that loves is happiness.but in me it has a reversed meaning.it makes my life unhappy.
O.v Grace
#99. Having a home means having somewhere to go back to. Having a family means having someone to defend. Having a life means knowing you'll do anything to keep it.
Mira Grant
#100. Don't you?" said Moody quietly. "It's very simple, Karkaroff. Someone put Potter's name in that goblet knowing he'd have to compete if it came out.
J.K. Rowling
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