Top 100 To Know What Quotes
#1. Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.
Esme Raji Codell
#2. i don't know what your situation is but i wanted you to know what mine is not just to explain some rude behavior, but because we're on a little boat for a while and... i'm soul sick. and you're going to see that.
John Patrick Shanley
#3. Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.
Margaret Atwood
#4. Like children in a schoolyard, they want to know what was my accident, how much did it hurt, and what did I look like afterward ... I am not the only person I have known who has encountered emotional sightseers.
Natalie Kusz
#5. It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.
David R. Brower
#6. Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind ... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
Irving Stone
#7. I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?
Sue Monk Kidd
#8. IT is some years now, since we first conceived a strong veneration for Clowns, and an intense anxiety to know what they did with themselves out of pantomime time, and of the stage.
Charles Dickens
#9. If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.
Tom Cruise
#10. You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
Steve Martin
#11. Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
Gary Cherone
#12. To believe in miracles in one thing ... to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#13. All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most ... .
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. I want to know what it's like to lie next to him without anything between us.
Katy Evans
#15. Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?
Scott Anderson
#16. It seems lies come very easily to your race. They lie to those they lead, to their mates and fellows no matter how close- drawn, even to themselves if it will make the world around them more bearable. It is hard to know what to believe in this place." Something
Richard K. Morgan
#17. I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.
David Duchovny
#19. The moving cliff gave us the feeling we had to look behind us to know what lay ahead.
Amy Tan
#20. One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.
Alison Gopnik
#21. Hattie had never been easy to love. She was too quiet, it was impossible to know what she was thinking. And she was angry all of the time and so disdainful when her high expectations weren't met.
Ayana Mathis
#22. Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
John Katzman
#23. Struggles are required in order to survive in life because, in order to stand up, you have to know what falling down is like.
N.a.
#24. One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.
Rocco Buttiglione
#25. A Freudian would claim to know what they have and I lack, but intelligence is not situated in the crotch -
Rebecca Solnit
#26. It seems no matter how long we live, we never seem to know what we're meant to be doing.
Jacinta Maree
#27. This powerful question - "Am I standing in my power or am I trying to please another?" - challenges us to believe in ourselves and make the daring choice to trust in our innate ability to know what's in our highest and best interest.
Debbie Ford
#28. Are you curious about cutting off your finger? Do you want to know what that feels like? To me, taking drugs is the same type of thing. In the end, all that happens is you get hurt by it.
Justin Bieber
#29. As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
Radha Mitchell
#30. She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.
Alice Hoffman
#32. The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.
Philip Pullman
#33. You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.
Russell Freedman
#34. Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
Walter Raleigh
#35. How much are you worth?
I have no idea. How much do you want?
Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
Oh, my, yes.
Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!
Robert Towne
#36. As they began to tie me, I wanted to yell out, to release some of my fear that way, but I held it in. Imogen wouldn't be that far from here yet, and I didn't want her to know what was about to happen.
If it was possible to scream on the inside, though, I was, and the sound of it was deafening.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#37. I want to know what I want. For in setting forth
Esther Hicks
#38. The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.
Pope Benedict XVI
#39. Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#40. You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.
Paul Konerko
#41. People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae - to know what to ask is already to know half.
Will Durant
#43. I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
(Nero Wolfe)
Rex Stout
#44. If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.
Linda Sunshine
#45. I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
Lisa Unger
#46. Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.
Michael Kimmelman
#47. Not all men are wounded in the same place; and so you ought to know what part of you is weak, so you can give it the most protection.
Seneca.
#48. Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
Sue Grafton
#49. Everyone has a purpose. There are those who are unfortunate enough not to know what that purpose is, and there are those that are bound by it, thrive in it, know nothing else.
Kelsey Sutton
#50. Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.
Ha-Joon Chang
#51. My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#52. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#53. If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
Giannina Braschi
#54. If you REALLY want to know what another person is like, notice how he or she treats the less fortunate or those without position or title.
Steve Shallenberger
#55. It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Hippocrates
#56. Who had been fighting with someone they loved?
Going at it long enough to unleash the irretrievable words they knew to say only because they had been trusted to know what would hurt the most.
Bill Clegg
#57. To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby ...
Conrad Williams
#58. Sometimes you have to lose everything to know what you had.
Jeaniene Frost
#59. Ty pointed his beer at Josh. "Want to know what I think?"
"No," Josh said.
"I think you have a case of being a little girl. Maybe you should prescribe yourself a heavy dose of man-the-fuck-up.
Jill Shalvis
#60. My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
#61. She hoped it would happen too quickly for her to recognize just how she was dying, to know what part of her broke first.
Sarah J. Maas
#62. A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.
Philip K. Dick
#63. Now he had her full attention. Not only because she wanted to know what had happened, but because anyone who'd get up at two in the morning to smack a melon in the dark deserved attention. Perhaps even medical attention.
Louise Penny
#64. You have to go after what you want. You have to know what you want.
Maggie Stiefvater
#65. I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about
Kate Nash
#66. It is the peculiar privilege of the Church, to know what the Divine judgments mean, and what is their tendency.
John Calvin
#67. It was hard to tell if he was lying, or really believed his own bullshit. "We're good for each other. You give me what I need. I give you what you need. No one needs to know what that is because it's a secret between us. So we put on our suit. That's the investment: us.
Dan Skinner
#68. A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.
Myron Scholes
#69. Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height ... Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.
Alan Judd
#70. It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Gertrude Stein
#71. What did I want? What was I looking for? What was I doing there, hour after hour? Contradictory things. I wanted to know what was going on. I wanted to be stimulated. I wanted to be in contact and I wanted to retain my privacy, my private space.
Olivia Laing
#72. You don't need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow.
Joyce Meyer
#73. When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster ... I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.
O. Henry
#74. They were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life ...
Frank O'Hara
#75. Want to know what's more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.
Kim Jong-un
#76. You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.
Lewis Black
#77. I don't want spaghetti. I want to know what a Magnus Bane is.
Cassandra Clare
#78. They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises.
William Gaddis
#79. ...I'd like to know what you want out of life."
"I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.
Anita Higman
#80. As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, "Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here."
John C. Lilly
#81. It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
Erica Jong
#82. I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
Henry Ward Beecher
#83. I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.
Misty Copeland
#84. Rather than simply being subject to them, I had wanted to know what it felt like to be one of the forces in this world.
Joshua Gaylord
#85. I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#86. Since meeting Con, she desperately wanted to know what it would feel like to be have him ---
He crushed his mouth to hers, jerking her out of her fantasies right into the reality.
Savannah Stuart
#87. The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.
Bohdi Sanders
#88. Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#89. He lifted up on one elbow and looked down at her. What she wouldn't give to see what he saw, to know what made him look at her that way.
Sarah Addison Allen
#90. A lot of time we build on lust that becomes very strong. Yet, when that lust wears off we think that love is running out, but really it's the lust that had an expiration date. We have to know what real love is and if we're really in-love.
Tony Gaskins
#91. I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.
Alice Miller
#92. I happen to know what family you come from, although I know I'm not supposed to know, and I'm certain you can manufacture proof of anything you want."
"That's true. I can. But I didn't."
-Airiana & Maxim
Christine Feehan
#93. I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.
Kieran Bew
#94. You want to know what it's like to emigrate to Saturn system? Imagine spending six years in a straitjacket tied to the outside of a skyscraper, with only a couple dozen similar lunatics for company.
Charles Stross
#95. Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.
Pete Carroll
#96. But I think you have a right to know what it is you're not being told.
Terry Pratchett
#97. The idea that it was the state's business to know what was good for people - while we accept it uncomplainingly in school curriculums and hospital practices - smacked of eugenics and perhaps euthanasia.
Tony Judt
#98. You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.
Harrison Ford
#99. I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.
Evan Goldberg
#100. When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
George Lois
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