Do You Know Quotes

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

Aaron Spelling

Suicide, People, House

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Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Ayn Rand

Men, Envy, Hallmark

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.274, Hamilton Books

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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

Alfred de Vigny

Country, Garden, Air

Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Beautiful, Flirting, Littles

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What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

Pablo Casals

Children, Unique, Parent

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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Alain Prost

Helmet, Knows

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?

Clarice Lispector

Answers, Sometimes, Knows

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Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

Anita Desai

Self, Childhood, Return

The Clear Light of Day ch. 1 (1980)

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I'm not an L.A. guy. I don't take meetings - you know what I mean? I don't really know how to interact very well with people in L.A. because everybody's got an agenda and everybody's like, "What do you do?" "Where are you going?" Or it's like, "What do you know?" And I'm not on a grind - I was there to make music and to meet people but I wasn't hustling for anything.

James Vincent McMorrow

Mean, People, Guy

"James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

Phyllis Bottome

Thinking, Doe, Birth

Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.189, Northwestern University Press

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Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Men, Roots, Honest

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Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Rosalind Russell

Movie, Giving, Theatre

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Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

Tallulah Bankhead

Ambition, Mind, Remember

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They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

Jay Leno

Dog, Hot, Buns

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Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

Katherine Mansfield

Mother, Mean, Silence

Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Victor Hugo

Brother, Hands, Two

Victor Hugo (2015). “Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature”, p.92, 谷月社

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How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.

Phyllis Diller

Growing Up, Mark, Wells

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Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

Rush Limbaugh

Stupid, Land, Today

"The Rush Limbaugh Show", February 18, 1994.

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The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the shade of God...Those who when given what is right accept it, when asked for something give freely and who judge in favor of others as they do for themselves."

Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

Positive, Giving, Judging

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Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.

CM Punk

Inspiring, Knows, Hard

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When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, "I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any."

Richard Pryor

Voice, People, Causes

"Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

Jack Lemmon

Speak, Inherit The Wind, Knows

"Pals revisit Scopes in 'Inherit the Wind'". www.cnn.com. May 28, 1999.

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