Do You Know Quotes - Page 28

• Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, May, Dignity

  Letter to his brother, M. P. Chekhov, April 1879.

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• How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.

  Dawson Trotman

  Treats, Servant, Knows

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• One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 17), 1895.

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• I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

  Keith Richards

  Should, Knows

  "What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations with a Rock and Roll Survivor". Book by Jessica Pallington West, 2009.

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• How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Nonsense, Good Things, Century

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.115, Modern Library

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• I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

  Rebecca West

  Able, Wonderful, Knows

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• Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Christianity, Judaism

  "Ann Coulter Thinks That Jews Need to be Perfected by Becoming Christians" by Larisa Alexandrovna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2007.

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• It’s nine o’clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?

  Elle Varner

  Sunday, Night, Men

  Song: Where Your Man Is?

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• I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Done, World

  "I Am the People, the Mob" l. 1 (1916)

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• Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Philosophical, Fighting

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.382, Penguin

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• They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

  Bob Dylan

  Rights, Games, Names

  Song: Band Of The Hand It's Hell Time Man

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• Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

  Gloria Estefan

  Speak, Applause, Said

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• I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Weakness, Mediocrity

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Song, Tree

  Quoted in Carl E Schorske Fin-de-Sie'cle Vienna (1961), p.165.

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• Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

  Georg Buchner

  Life Is, Too Short, Humans

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Buchner, Act III, 1838.

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• Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Husband, Home, Work Out

  Samuel R. Delany (2010). “Dhalgren”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?"

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Followers, Want, Realizing

  Source: collider.com

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• In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.

  Ben Harper

  Blessed, Want, Worst

  Song: One Road to Freedom, Album: Fight for Your Mind, 1995

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• Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

  Frank Loesser

  Girl, Brother, Women

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• How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Vegetables, Vitamins And Minerals

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• Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

  Vernor Vinge

  Butterfly, Said, Wells

  Vernor Vinge (2017). “The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)”, p.281, Macmillan

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• I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosques in Egypt? "We want to go to the White House and turn it into the Islamic House..." We call upon the Arab countries to stop teaching hatred to the Arab children.

  Nonie Darwish

  Country, Children, Teaching

  "We Must Begin to View the Jews in a Forgiving Light". Middle East Media Research Institute, March 2007.

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• Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

  Stanley Spencer

  Art, Knows, Art Is

  "Times Thievish Progress". Book by John Rothenstein, 1970.

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• Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lying, Ocean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Iran may have attacked ISIS. Do you know how long it's been since I have been able to wear my "Go Iran" T-shirt?

  Conan O'Brien

  Isis, Iran, Long

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