Quotes with know-it-all

Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 8447.

  • Lionel Trilling Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
    - +
     0
  • Black Hawk Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
    Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
    Black Hawk
     
    - +
     0
  • Gail Hamilton Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
    Gail Hamilton
    American writer (1833 - 1896)
    - +
     0
  • Napoleon Hill Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
    Source: Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • C. S. Lewis Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
    Source: The Great Divorce (1944)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Paine Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur C. Clarke Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Sher Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Shapiro Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Law Montgomery Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
    - +
     0
  • Bar Refaeli Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Medley Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Kingsolver Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carolyn Chute Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
    - +
     0
  • Beck Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carl Andre Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
    - +
     0
  • Chris Evert Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
    Chris Evert
    American tennis player (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Billy Graham Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
    - +
     0
All know-it-all famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 100)