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You Will Never Know Quotes

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.
- Mark Twain

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.
- John Adams

No posterity, you will never know how much it has cost us to preserve your freedom. My hope is that you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I have took half the pains to preserve it.
- John Adams
- John Adams

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
- John Quincy Adams

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
- Veronica Roth

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.
- Jodi Picoult

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
- Louisa May Alcott

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
- Louis Armstrong

You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.
- Cameron Crowe

This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he's none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind's right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka's mystery even to the Pooka.
- Peter S Beagle

Sometimes our work as caregivers is not for the faint of heart. But, you will never know what you are made of until you step into the fire. Step bravely!
- Deborah A Beasley

I love you, Chansey Rose Leclaire and it is a terrible tragedy that you will never know how much because I could never be the same after loving you. - Curry from Blood of Anteros
- Georgia Cates

What if she never knows the end of the story? She shudders, and her mind continues to lurch forward into the future, that simple expectation of time passing - another moment, and another moment. It seems impossible that it will abruptly cease. It seems impossible that you will never know what happens next, that the thread you've been following your whole life will just... cut off, like a book with the last pages torn out. That doesn't seem fair, she thinks.
- Dan Chaon

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath
- Confucius

You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it.
- Santosh Kalwar

My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you will never know.
- Sarah Dessen

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
- Terry Eagleton

And then I notice the music flooding out of every part of the apartment at once the couch, the walls, even the floor and I know Bennies alone in Lou's studio, pouring music down around us. A minute ago it was "Don't Let Me Down". Then it was Blondie's "Heart of Glass". Now it's Iggy Pop's "The Passenger". Listening, I think, You will never know how much I understand you.
- Jennifer Egan

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
- Bret Easton Ellis

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
- Thomas Hardy

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
- Tom Hanks

Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know nothing. You ask questions, you want to know more, but no matter how much more I tell you, you will never know anything. That's the problem.
- Aleksandar Hemon

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
- J K Rowling

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
- U G Krishnamurti

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.
- Ngaio Marsh

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
- Kent Nerburn

It is on a day like this one,
a little later a little earlier
that you descover without surprise
that something is wrong
that you don't know how to live
and you will never know
- Georges Perec

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.
- Christopher Pike

You have no idea who he is, Suzanne. If you judge him by his actions, you will never know him.
- Tiffany Reisz

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
- Ayrton Senna

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
- Jeanette Winterson

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don't want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.
- Howard Zinn

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