Quotes About Not Knowing What You've Got Until It's Gone

#1. The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

Aaron Peirsol

#2. I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that?

Leslie Feinberg

#3. Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life challenges and head on, knowing there are no gurantees, and give it all they've got, and never think it's too late, or too early to begin.

Anonymous

#4. If you needed revenge, you've got it. Every minute that I'm with you knowing that you're not mine is like hydrochloric acid in a razor cut.

Connie Bailey

#5. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--"

~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

#6. I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

Lily Collins

#7. I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.

Chaz Bundick

#8. For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

Ian Thorpe

#9. You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

Alistair Begg

#10. I've been waiting for you without even knowing it.

Jay Bell

#11. I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

Douglas Dunn

#12. Somehow you've come past the realm of just knowing about this Person called Jesus Christ and He is real to you.

Norman Grubb

#13. God, please touch it. It hurts so bad," he growled, freeing himself from his pants. "I've been going mad every morning, knowing you were up here all naked and soft. I've got to have you now, baby. Let me have you or I'm going to lose my mind. I can't think. I can't think.

Tessa Bailey

#14. I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

Greg Giraldo

#15. Knowing takes its own time. I swear sometimes you've gotta get really, really uncomfortable before it shows up.

Deb Caletti

#16. If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

Patrick Swayze

#17. It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

Joe Jamail

#18. There's a version of the future in my head where I stay here forever....Bleak, I know. But, still, there's a lot of comfort that comes with knowing how your life is going to turn out. I've never had a surprise turn out in my favor.

Julie Murphy

#19. I'm definitely playing next year. That's my ace in the hole. It's a little hard to sit back and watch the guys [this season], but it's easier knowing I've got something to look forward to.

Tedy Bruschi

#20. Ultimately, the fruit of faithful leadership is knowing we've pleased the audience of One.

Bob Kauflin

#21. 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

#22. The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

Marianne Williamson

#23. Where will you go, when the clock strikes twelve? What will you do, when you face yourself? How will you live, knowing what you've done? How will you die, if your soul's already gone?

Marie Lu

#24. I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.

Carl Froch

#25. My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

Adria Petty

#26. I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

Tom Cruise

#27. Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.

Chip Heath

#28. I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

Youth Lagoon

#29. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Johnny Depp

#30. I have DM'd games where the players smoked pot, where they have cooked fondue, where they've performed yoga and where they've slipped out for ten minutes (without my knowing) to have quick sex in the bathroom during a game break.

Alexis D. Smolensk

#31. There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up in the light and see a hundred facets, and knowing you, you've found a hundred and one.

Nancy Horan

#32. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Bobby Bowden