#knowing

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision. ↗

— George Ryan

#going #i #knowing #made #right

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#business #cities #come #corner #every

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#cannot #collaborative #extraordinary #great #humble

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#communicating #everything #experienced #felt #human

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#i #know #knowingly #me #people

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. ↗

— Solomon Short

#being #being smart #dumb #half #knowing

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

#buying #consequences #consumer #doing #family

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. ↗

— Huston Smith

#comes #constitutes #continue #everything #extend

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#earth #give #i #just #knowing