Do You Know Quotes - Page 22

• Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It’s just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Spinning Around

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.108, Random House

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• Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Country, Years, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?

  Rio Ferdinand

  Soccer, Football, Who I Am

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• Do you know how powerful you are?

  Puff Daddy

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

  "10 Quotes From Diddy’s Howard Commencement Speech" by Iyana Robertson, www.vibe.com. May 11, 2014.

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• Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

  Epictetus

  Carpe Diem, Disease And Death, Wish

  Epictetus (1925). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, House, Guy

  "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'" by Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

  A. C. Benson

  Jam, Sticks, Pot

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• One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 17), 1895.

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• Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Land, Hiking

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• Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

  Elie Wiesel

  Laughter, Mistake, Men

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• Do you know what happens after you lose the Super Bowl? The world ends. It just stops.

  Joe Kapp

  World, Super Bowl, Ends

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• How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.

  Dawson Trotman

  Treats, Servant, Knows

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• Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, May, Dignity

  Letter to his brother, M. P. Chekhov, April 1879.

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• People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

  Kellan Lutz

  Falling In Love, Kids, People

  "Kellan Lutz is a One-Woman Kind of Guy". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. November 16, 2012.

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• How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

  Andre Gide

  Maturity, Branches, Fruit

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

  Ed Wood

  Disbelief, Heard, Havens

  "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.

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• The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been living for decades in the territory of Baltic states and have been deprived of a number of political rights. They cannot participate in the election campaigns; they have limited political and social rights. Everybody keeps quiet about it, as if this is the way it should be. Of course, this cannot but cause a certain reaction.

  Vladimir Putin

  Numbers, Rights, People

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Thinking, Wish

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• The music that I play is much more accepted in America. Do you know what I mean? Americans recognize and not necessarily country music. I go to a lot of places in Canada and they go "I don't like country music" and they think I'm a country musician. When I am a country musician but not a country musician like they think of.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million. We can enforce the laws and if we secure the border, that solves the problem. And as president I will solve this problem and secure the border.

  Ted Cruz

  Law, President, Bills

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Do you know what the title was of the Pope, which ought to be used? Servant of the servants of God. It's a little different from the stars. Stars are beautiful to look at. I like to look at them in the summer when the sky is clear. But the Pope must be, must be the servant of the servants of God.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  In-flight interview from Philadelphia to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. September 27, 2015.

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• I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

  Michael Caine

  School, Boys, Grandpa

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

  Macy Gray

  Real, Mean, Cake

  "It's a Macy, Macy world" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2001.

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• Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

  Stephen King

  Tahiti, Sometimes, Know How

  Stephen King (2016). “Desperation”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Risk, Where You Are, Knows

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