Knowing Quotes

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.

It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.

Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.

It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.

Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

The other side is beyond knowing. You cannot know what you experience on the other side, here. Wisdom is beyond the grasp of the conscious mind.

Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.

When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.

You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.

Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.

Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.