Top 100 Quotes About No One Knows
#2. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
Rumi
#3. Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate.
Lao Chang
#4. No one knows who I am ... that I am she ... that she is me.
L. H. Cosway
#5. No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#6. I mean, if no one knows for sure what God's like, then why don't you just believe the people who think he's all rainbows and sunshine and loves you no matter what?
J.C. Lillis
#7. I love the passions. They create such sensation! Anger, grief, fear, love, hate, excitement. The fierce emotions make one feel. Such are a gift, so one knows one is alive. To live without passion is to have no life at all.
Nikki Sex
#9. Confucious and the Madman (excerpt)
The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down!
The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it.
Every man knows how useful it is to be useful.
No one seems to know
How useful it is to be useless.
Thomas Merton
#10. Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.
Joyce Carol Oates
#11. I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.
Carl Sagan
#12. Death an absolute mystery. No one knows the day and the time, no one knows where and how. Death is an absolute mystery.
Euginia Herlihy
#13. One who "knows," knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough
Osho
#14. No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
Robert Smith Surtees
#15. No one knows your body like you do. Listen to it. It will tell you what to eat, when to drink, how to sleep and which exercises you need to do. Let your own body be your most trusted personal trainer.
Toni Sorenson
#16. 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
#17. One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19
Epicurus
#18. All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
Cynthia Ozick
#19. Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?
Alexandra Bracken
#20. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon
#21. And tomorrow
who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows
it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#22. People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.
Nigel Barker
#23. When you travel alone, no one knows who you are, there's no predetermined idea about how you should act, you are free, and you can be your true self. Every morning you are liberated to create your identity as you truly want it to be.
Sean Michael Hayes
#24. No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.
Ann Landers
#25. No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.
Kristen Schaal
#26. My mother used to say that no one knows what's going on in a stew but the pot and the spoon.
Una LaMarche
#27. Oh so what if where related, so what if we're not accepted, love knows no relation, no gender, no boundary. Love is exactly what it is and if no one else can see that, well fuck them
R.J. Seeley
#28. If no one knows you, then you are no one.
Dan Chaon
#29. Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Laozi
#30. No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
Ian McEwan
#31. Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?
Thanhha Lai
#32. The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.
Sloane Crosley
#34. I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they don't have good PAs and so no one knows what you're singing about.
Kathleen Hanna
#35. No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst ... when you think you're drowning.
Dane Cook
#36. No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
Alan Lightman
#37. But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving
Douglas Adams
#38. If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
M.J. Rose
#39. No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.
Jacques Ellul
#40. No one knows what he or she is capable of until things are at their darkest.
A.G. Howard
#41. For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
Andrea Gibson
#42. 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
#43. It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.
Marlene Dietrich
#44. Two people who share a secret no one else knows because no one else understands the way it is between us when our clothes are off and her breath is my breath and there are no more questions, just answers, and every single one is her name.
Lili Valente
#45. The only part of love that is blind is that first rush of endorphins and craziness; after that wears off, no one knows you as honestly, warts and all, as the people who love you, truly love you.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#46. Now that you will leave, now that the day of payment
dawns, now that no one knows
who he will kill and how he will die
take with you the boy who saw the light
under the leaves of that plane tree
and teach him how to study the trees.
Giorgos Seferis
#47. You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
Dan Farmer
#48. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
Madonna Ciccone
#49. No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
Gareth Gates
#50. The reason there are so many opinions is that no one knows the Truth.
Joan Konner
#51. There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.
Kimbra
#52. Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.
Paul Krassner
#53. When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.
Emily Mann
#54. Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.
Cecelia Ahern
#55. Define the life you want.
Never allow yourself to be bullied.
No one knows your destiny.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#56. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
#57. Well, I guess I'm just not as special as you are. (Urian)
No one knows their true mettle until it's been tested. This is yours. Whether you pass or fail is entirely up to you. I can't tell you what to do, but I know where I'll be tonight. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
#59. No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.
Candice Swanepoel
#60. What kind of world will be there tomorrow? "No one knows the answer to that," Fuka-Eri said.
Haruki Murakami
#61. Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.
Frank Knox
#62. Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving Thee, And knows no other shame.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. I don't need to know your history. I don't want to know about your past," he says as he looks at me. "I want to pretend that you exist today just for me, that no one else knows you the way I know you at this moment.
Ava Zavora
#65. No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
Victor LaValle
#66. God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, "I can't take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me."
Bill Maher
#67. I look up to the modern entrepreneurs, because the one's from the old age, many are racist, even if no one knows about that part of their lives, but I am not so ignorant that I will not learn from their work to better my life.
James Jean-Pierre
#68. When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
James Lankford
#69. One can evade a danger that one recognizes,' wrote historian Friedrich Zipfel, 'but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent, it could appear, search arrest. The worried citizen no longer knows whom he ought to trust.
Erik Larson
#70. In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
Alex Haley
#71. Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
Nick Hornby
#72. No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#73. Whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.
Johanna Spyri
#74. Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy.
Anonymous
#75. No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#76. When life is good, enjoy it. But when life is hard, remember:
God gives good times and hard times, and no one knows what tomorrow will bring. (Ecclesiastes 7:14, New Century Version)
Anonymous
#77. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.
Anonymous
#78. With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.
Joan Osborne
#79. No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
Mika.
#81. In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.
Sun Tzu
#82. Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.
Roman Coppola
#83. No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'
Domhnall Gleeson
#84. Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
Morley Safer
#85. It's nice to see you. Aimee calls you Bigfoot, by the way."
"Bigfoot?"
"Yeah, you know, like a mythical creature that people say they've seen in the wild but no one knows for sure if it's real. That's you ...
Tracy Brogan
#86. Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.
Frederick Lenz
#87. When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.
Jeanne M. Brett
#88. Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.
Frederick Lenz
#89. I need a name."
"No one knows your name."
"Do you plan on yelling 'hey you' every time you need to get my attention?
Anna Durand
#90. No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Marcelene Cox
#91. Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. But I was just out of college, no one knows was true love is at that age. Right? Marissa.
Dumbledore Irregular
#95. The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.
Edmund Clowney
#96. Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction ...
Harriet Martineau
#97. No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.
Veronica Roth
#98. 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
#99. I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.
Junot Diaz
#100. To people who think I'm happy, just look again; the scars of my past will lead you to a place no one knows, a place no other person can imagine, a place that echoes with the desolate cries of a lonely heart, a place where I'm being stabbed to death hundreds of times.
Manoj Kumar Duppala