Knows Quotes

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.