Aja Naomi King Quotes, Writing Quotes, Knowing Quotes

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

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O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Knowing Quotes

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Tasks Quotes

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Wise Quotes , Knowing Quotes

A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

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Tags : Aimee Mann Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Interesting Quotes

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Giving Quotes

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Way Quotes

Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Men Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Cowardice Quotes

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Discovery Quotes , Knowing Quotes

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Knowing Quotes

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

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Tags : Al-Shafi‘i Quotes , Heart Quotes , Knowing Quotes

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

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Tags : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Cat Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Rereading Quotes