Know How Quotes - Page 33

• I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

  Taki Theodoracopulos

  Political Language, Speak, Knows

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• People who know how to act are never preachers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Preacher, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.82, Harvard University Press

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• Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Son, Daddy

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• The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Emotional, Pay, Bills

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

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• How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way - we don't know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear.

  Michel de Salzmann

  Space, Trying, Answers

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• A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don't utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that's where the power comes in.

  Nonito Donaire

  Guy, Use, Arms

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• The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

  Diablo Cody

  Movie, Writing, Thinking

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• Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Names, Bears, Knows

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• At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Real, Use, Poet

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.256, Ravenio Books

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• How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

  Woody Allen

  Understanding, Hell, Nazi

  "Hannah and Her Sisters". www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.

  Langston Hughes

  Women, Wife, Wish

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.24, University of Missouri Press

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• I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Teacher, Thinking, Problem

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• The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Childhood, World

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• The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

  Cato the Younger

  Silence, Tongue, Quiet

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• I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it is caving in on itself. I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Believe, Responsibility

  "Madonna to Anderson Cooper: Shedding a new ray of light on art and life". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2013.

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• If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

  Confucius

  Men, Worry, Confucianism

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• To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Practice

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• He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.

  Publilius Syrus

  Snares, Knows

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• One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

  Havelock Ellis

  Giving, Worthy, Knows

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.12, Elsevier

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• The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

  Madeleine Albright

  Differences, Mammals, Humans

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• Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Wisdom, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.147

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• Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

  William Feather

  Compliment, Complaints, Knows

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• Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Treats, Knows

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• Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it.

  David Carradine

  Fun, Guy, Feel Good

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• There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

  Primo Levi

  Courage, Men, Dignity

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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