Know How Quotes

• Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Games, Play, Happens

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.392, Macmillan

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• Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

  Paul Bocuse

  Critics, Knows, Eunuchs

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• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Magic, Shows, Show Business

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• I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Morning, Land

  Ezra Taft Benson (1960). “So shall ye reap: selected addresses”

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  You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!

  Earl Nightingale

  Giving Up, Men, Persistence

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• A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.59, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.

  P. C. Cast

  Hate, People, Filled

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.284, Macmillan

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• And I know how he feels–it’s so good it hurts.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Hurt, Feels, Knows

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

  William Shakespeare

  Taught, Language, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363

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• Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Suffering, Bears, Better Days

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• After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Mrs Dalloway, Ends

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.934, Delphi Classics

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• In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

  Gayle Forman

  Feelings, Absence, Calculus

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.53, Penguin

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• Hillary Clinton is more in the center of things than I am, but she also knows how to work with the opposition, which is a necessary talent in politics right now.

  Joss Whedon

  Talent, Clinton, Right Now

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• You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

  Severn Cullis-Suzuki

  Animal, Ozone, Layers

  Speech at U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, delivered day Month 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

  Georges Simenon

  Communication, Two, People

  Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

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• This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

  Arleigh Burke

  Fighting, Navy, Ships

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• "Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."

  Kanye West

  Rap, Dark, Apology

  "Kanye West New York Times Interview: Rapper Takes Back Taylor Swift Apology, Professes Love For Kim Kardashian", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  Order, Who We Are, Succeed

  Leszek Kolakowski (1997). “Modernity on Endless Trial”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

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• You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

  Daniel Quinn

  Wisdom, Problem, Handle

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• A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Style, Embrace, Universal

  Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.84, Yale University Press

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• I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Integrating, Sheffield

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• The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

  Prince Philip

  Breakfast, Classic, Cooks

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