#knowing

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#answer #approach #choosing #ever #first

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#also #being #condition #continuity #doing

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted. ↗

— Jayne Mansfield

#knowing #loved #most #wanted #wonderful

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#american dream #away #before #came #challenges

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#children #cigarettes #even #find #forever

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#discovery #fascinating #i #i think #interesting

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#bands #gigs #going #i #knowing

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. ↗

— Andrew J. Bacevich

#being #going #knowing #much #our

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. ↗

— John Badham

#about #attention #attention span #great #just

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. ↗

— William Barclay

#going #him #insist #know #knowing