Top 100 You Know Better Quotes
#2. But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.
Leila Sales
#3. I'm never opposed to sexual favors as payment." He wrapped her ponytail around his fist, leaning close to her ear.
"I'm too exhausted to kick your ass. Drop my hair. You know better.
Debra Anastasia
#4. If I was Judge Del Rosario, I would say Ili, of all people, you know better.
Duane Chapman
#5. When you know better and you don't do better, you're no better
Jeff Van Gundy
#6. Some mornings,
it's hard to get
out of bed.
Sleep lures you
like a stranger
with a piece of candy.
Follow me.
It will be okay.
I promise.
You know better,
but still you follow,
because you really do
love candy.
Lisa Schroeder
#7. Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
Karl Kraus
#8. What the heck are those?" I said without even thinking. "Ethan Wate, you watch your mouth, or I'll have ta wash it out with soap. You know better than ta use pro-fanity," Aunt Grace said. Which, as far as she was concerned, included words like panties, naked, and bladder.
Kami Garcia
#9. That doesn't mean you hafta talk that way when you know better, said Jem. Calpurnia
Harper Lee
#10. As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
#11. The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.
DeWayne Owens
#12. Medium clever," Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking."
"I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chattering about," said Jace. "It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.
Cassandra Clare
#13. Be careful, if I didn't know better, I would think you're sounding jealous."
"Good thing you know better.
Jalpa Williby
#14. You don't read, you don't understand. You don't know what it's like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.
Atticus Shaffer
#15. I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.
Bruce Feiler
#16. I grew up in Louisiana, a lot of carbohydrates, fried foods, all very good. Butter, lots of homemade cakes and cookies. Here I am in Los Angeles and just really educating myself about food. Once you know better, you do better.
Ali Landry
#17. When you know better and don't do better then you deserve just what you get.
Micki Michelle
#18. If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.
Bethany Pierce
#19. I looked at Jonah. "I'm still learning who you are. And you're my partner, so I appreciate that you're willing to take a punch for me." I walked to Ethan and glared up at him. "But you know better than this, Ethan Sullivan.
Chloe Neill
#20. I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.
Elisha Cuthbert
#22. My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."
Chris Rock
#23. She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not ... you know, better."
"Define BETTER with that guy."
"Not all fangs and raaaaar.
Rachel Caine
#24. Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.
Tony Evans
#25. More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.
Gerry Geek
#26. What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'
Henry Sydnor Harrison
#27. Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.
Tupac Shakur
#28. True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.
Philippa Gregory
#29. Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.
Sarah Dessen
#30. I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that." "Medium clever, "Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythbBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.
Cassandra Clare
#31. As Maya Angelou, American author, poet, and self-described Renaissance Woman, wrote, Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
L.R. Knost
#32. Sometimes," he replies and pulls me into his arms, hugging me tight, "two people have to fall apart before they can realize how much they need to fall back together. And now that you know better, you can do better.
Kristen Proby
#33. It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
Olivier Martinez
#34. What would I possibly know - I've only been stationed in the mountains of Iliaz for half a decade. I only heard Rocs screaming every night while you were still sleeping in the harem by your mother. But you know better, I'm sure.
Alwyn Hamilton
#35. You know better than I, Monsieur,' said he, 'that to lie with a girl is only to make her do what pleases her; there is often a great distance between that and making her do what we want.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#36. The friends you meet over forty are really juicy. They are highly emulsified and full of flavor. Now that you're starting to have a sense of who you are, you know better what kind of friend you want and need.
Amy Poehler
#37. My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.
Mila Kunis
#38. We came here because no place would take us after our momma died. They all said go away, come back when you're older, when you know better, when you've learned. Only no one wants to teach how to be older or to know better - not even Devin. They just teach us how to be broken.
Seanan McGuire
#39. Folks will take hold of whatever story suits em best and nothing you can do. Don't matter if it is your story, once they start in on it, you can't never get it out of their mouth. No matter how hard you try. All you can do is find a way to hang on to knowing you know better.
Margaret Wrinkle
#40. You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is
your absence, Alaric
Alyssa Day
#41. Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
Raymond Carver
#42. What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?
Mark Batterson
#43. You know better than to blame yourself." "Knowing better doesn't always stop it.
J.D. Robb
#44. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!
Joyce Meyer
#45. But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know.
J.A. Huss
#46. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.
Tom Lehman
#47. You never know what you can handle until if comes time to handle it. The less you think about it the better you'll handle it.
Art Hochberg
#48. 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
#49. The better the script is the more you can commit,but you can only really commit with full confidence when you know the material is as strong as your level of commitment to it and it frees you up.
James McAvoy
#50. I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
Joan Cusack
#51. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...
J.K. Rowling
#52. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.
Rachel Caine
#53. Yeah. Think I'll have to pass on the sex, though."
"We don't have to have sex just because you're staying the night."
"Oh! I thought it was the standard fee for the pillow, but now when I know better..."
"I might take that back..."
"Too late!" she laughed.
Lina Andersson
#54. Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?
Karen Marie Moning
#55. An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.
Bernard Cornwell
#56. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.
Allison Winn Scotch
#57. Everyone is alien. And even when you are in love with someone, even when you think you know them better than you know yourself; even when you think you know everything about them and they you, and you live in each other's souls.
Even then you know nothing about them at all.
Jenny Colgan
#58. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.
Nora Roberts
#59. It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
Marianne Williamson
#60. You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you?
Eva Longoria
#61. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.
Devon Michael
#62. I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.
Pia Zadora
#63. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Stacy Mantle
#64. If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.
Mickey Mantle
#65. People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.
Bono
#66. I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier.
Sheryl Sandberg
#67. Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.
Robin McKinley
#68. It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.
Aeriel Miranda
#69. When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.
John Barrasso
#70. My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. But I don't want 'em to, you know, I'm like "Hey, hold on, fellas. Let me hold one of you. And feed you a leaf."
Mitch Hedberg
#72. I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.
Coco Chanel
#73. I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
Joss Whedon
#74. There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.
Alanis Morissette
#75. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.
Yoshitaka Amano
#76. And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?
Elton John
#77. Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
Anna Kournikova
#78. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.
Elliot Mabeuse
#79. Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.
Milton H. Erickson
#80. From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.
Iyanla Vanzant
#81. I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something.
Claudia Rankine
#82. The goal of Christian dating is not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend but to find a spouse. Have that in mind as you get to know one an- other, and if you're not ready to commit to a relationship with the end goal of marriage, it's better not to date but simply to remain friends.
Mark Driscoll
#83. By putting you into an enchanted sleep and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, I would do it. But I know better. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. You
J.K. Rowling
#84. If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, Hey, here's 10 more songs.
Craig Finn
#85. Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you've seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#86. You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?
Don King
#87. Your employees know each other better than they know you.
Ben Horowitz
#88. I think you know when two people are meant for each other when you see that they're better people together than they are when they're apart.
Jessica Knoll
#89. The real reason for grounding ourselves in the truth that we are made for more is "so that you may know him better." The more we operate in the truth of who we are and the reality that we were made for more, the closer to God we'll become.
Lysa TerKeurst
#90. Julian, sometimes girls are like junk food. They look good, and they sure taste good ... but you know they're not healthy for you and cause cavities so it's better to just leave 'em alone. Got me?
Simone Elkeles
#91. You make me want to be a better person," he says softly. "To deserve you. I want you to know how right you feel to me.
Janet Gurtler
#92. Before you start a war, you better know what you're fighting for.
The Cab
#93. If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.
James Purefoy
#94. Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I'm new to this.
Buddy Wakefield
#95. Women must know themselves better than anyone. If you have ugly legs, wear long dresses. If you have long, great legs, show them.
Azzedine Alaia
#96. It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.
L.P. Hartley
#97. I will give you all of me, the good, the bad, and the broken parts because I know you make me better. You make me whole again.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#98. I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#99. To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.
Michelle Obama
#100. Love isn't always pretty, Tate. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost you heart somewhere along the way
Colleen Hoover
