They Knew Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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