The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry but a kind of instinct or inspiration such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence.

Writing has laws of perspective of light and shade just as painting does or music. If you are born knowing them fine. If not learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that not knowing how to play music - well still not knowing how to play music.

Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

I have retired but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

False opinions are like false money struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you knowing when to accept their criticism knowing when to say no.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions from the detergent Mom always used to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.