Quotes about know-how

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“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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]”

“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?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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…”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,… but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.”

“Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma”

“… he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.”

“The sound of my name in his voice stopped me in midturn. I don't know how the hell he did it, but whenever he said my name, it cut through all other distractions and made me pause, as if he'd clenched me to him and kissed me.”

“I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.”

“Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.”

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”

“We all know how to be a child.”

“I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He’ll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me”

“I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.”

“Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.”

“Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.”

“The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

“I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.”