They Knew Quotes
270 quotes by 243 authors
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There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated…
— Steve Carell
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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…
— Michelle Obama
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Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
— Terry Pratchett
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If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they…
— Charlotte Rampling
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Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard…
— John Wooden
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness…
— T.E. Lawrence
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Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time…
— Martin Samuel
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A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I…
— Walter Payton
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My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the…
— Carl Sagan
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They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops…
— David Whyte
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Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of…
— Aristotle
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved…
— Collin Raye
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Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley.…
— Steve Earle
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