Barack Obama Quotes, Knowing Quotes, Years Quotes

I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Attention Quotes

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Shining Quotes

A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Art Quotes , Knowing Quotes

The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

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One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Important Quotes

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

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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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I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Knowing Quotes , President 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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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

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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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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

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I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

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Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Causes Quotes

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Tree Quotes

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

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