Quotes about know-how
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“Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

Source: This World We Live In

“Damn it. I don't know how to be a husband, or father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

Chance

“The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed.
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged -- though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Variant: The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.
Source: The Poetry of Robert Frost

Flowers, Dead

“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Fear, Feeling, Hell, Knowledge

“You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: Duchess By Night

Death, Personality

“Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Google this: Jean Vanier and what it means to be human http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/google-this-jean-vanier-a_b_7484702.html Huffington Post, 02/06/2015 <br class="br">From interviews and talks <br class="br">Source: Community And Growth

Love

“I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you."

"I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

People, Smile, Dogs

“Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”

Tom Clancy book Red Rabbit

Source: Red Rabbit

Courage, Courageous

“… her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

Flying

“Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.”

Milan Kundera book Immortality

Source: Immortality

Dead

“Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

Love, Happiness, Heart

“I don't know how it is… but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.”

Georgette Heyer book The Masqueraders

Source: The Masqueraders

Thinking

“But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?"
Yes… the same age you will be if you don't.”

Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way

Source: The Artist's Way

Age, Learning, Time, Painting

“He wanted what he didn’t know and he didn’t know how to get what he wanted.’ (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.

The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Fear

“I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Dreams, Soul, Sleep, Night

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Thinking

“Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

Hurt

“A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Light

“After a minute he said, "It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that…except you.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

Time, Waiting

“But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Breathless

Lie, Peace

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”

Josephine Tey (1896–1952) Scottish author, mystery writer

Source: To Love and Be Wise

Life, Secret, Success

“Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Love

“That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.”

Stephen Kendrick book The Love Dare

Source: The Love Dare

Tree

“She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

Truth

“I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“Sometimes the only way to know how far you'd come was to return to where you once had been.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Way

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Wise

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”

Elaine May (1932) American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian

Lie, Law, Thinking, Night

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Love, Dreams, Imagination

“Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?”

D.J. MacHale The Soldiers of Halla

Source: The Soldiers of Halla

People

“Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.”

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Life

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

The Joy of Children (1966)

Secret, Joy, Motivational

“By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 66
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Dreams, Rage, Despair

“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Girl, Thinking

“You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Way

“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long… long before we know how to get there.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Between The Tides

Relationship

“Did you ever fly a kite in bed?
Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?
Did you ever milk this kind of cow?
Well, we can do it. We know how.
If you never did, you should.
These things are fun and fun is good.”

Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Cats, Flying

“When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Without heroes, we're all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.”

Bernard Malamud The Natural

The Natural (1952) p. 154 http://books.google.com/books?id=wCWhegoGUxwC&q=%22Without+heroes+we're+all+plain+people+and+don't+know+how+far+we+can+go%22&pg=PA148#v=onepage

People

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”

Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer

“Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?"
"I'm pretty sure I never said that.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Feeling

“I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Source: phenomenal woman

Feeling, Personality

“No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

World, Hurt

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Hope, Art, Way, Guy

“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”

Charles Bukowski book Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

People, Beauty

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Love, Way, Hurt

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Love, Nature

“You know how to shoot?"- Emma

"Yes. My dad taught me everything about gun safety. He was an expert." - Heather

"What happened to him?" -Shanna

"He was… shot." -Heather”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: The Undead Next Door

“I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Life

“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”

Zadie Smith (1975) British writer

“I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.”

Gregory Maguire Out of Oz

Source: Out of Oz

Reading, Flying

“Dang! Snake people know how to make bundt cake.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

People

“Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?”

Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Love, People

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

World, Change

“Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Boy, Thinking

“Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don’t be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: “What a pointless existence.” Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You’re wasting your time.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Time, Personality

“I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!”

Garth Nix book Superior Saturday

Source: Superior Saturday

Love, Change

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Learning, Perfection

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Life, Hell, Suicide

“You don't know how strong something is until you actually test it.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Strong

“One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems… wars, nations, destructions… to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

War, Parting, Dead

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”

Tom Perrotta Election

Source: Election

Love, People, Thinking

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Truth, World, Feeling

“Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

“We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sadness, Cars, Home

“Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Suffering

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Life

“She made an impatient noise. "By the Angel, you don't know anything about your kid, do you? Do you even really know how vampires are made?"
"Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, Angels

“Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Love

“We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

Help

“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Learning

“I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Ever After

Men, Age, Loss

“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”

Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches

p. 219 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation <br class="br">The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1906)

Love

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)

Attributed in The Rebirth of a Nation : With a Bill of Rights for America's Third Century (1978) by Robert S. Minor, p. 10; this is a paraphrase of a statement by his father John Adams in a letter to his mother Abigail Adams (27 April 1777): "Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it".
Misattributed

Hope, Freedom