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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. -- Noam Chomsky
Men often act knowingly against their interest. -- David Hume
I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. -- Brigitte Bardot
No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud. -- Bernard Ebbers
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me. -- Scarlett Johansson
I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly. -- Richard H. Davis
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. -- Joan Jett
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. -- Ken Livingstone
When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House. -- Scott McClellan
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to. -- Ken Livingstone
Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A. -- Michael Isikoff
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. -- Mary Astell
I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations. -- Shakira
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. -- Christopher Hitchens
The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. -- Corrine Brown
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it! -- Tom Wolfe
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. -- E. B. White
For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia. -- Miranda Richardson
I'm very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like political machinations. -- Steve Daines
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
Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one. -- Julie Burchill
I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.' -- David Mamet
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen. -- David D. Burns
I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. -- Andrew Motion
Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn't have to repay debts that we knowingly lent to bad regimes long since gone; and all illegitimate debts - debts lent to these terrible dictators like Saddam Hussein, like Suharto, like Marcos - must also be canceled. -- Noreena Hertz
Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27. -- Steven Moffat
Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas. -- Richard Schmid
No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud -- Bernard Ebbers
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life. -- Margaret Thatcher
Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends, -- Pat Sajak
Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for. -- Maya Angelou
Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. -- Rajneesh
all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are -- Mark Nepo
Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. -- George R. R. Martin
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them. -- Jane Austen
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I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer. -- Rebekah Brooks
one great irony about ignorance it that one may do wrong things greatly and great things wrongly; knowingly or unknowingly -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed. -- John Calvin
No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later. -- Vance Havner
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. -- Alan Lightman
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt. -- John Calvin
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. -- Aleister Crowley
Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal. -- Richard L. Evans
If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system -- Iain Duncan Smith
The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity. -- E. O. Wilson
Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep. -- Anuj
Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow. -- David Maister
I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme. -- J. P. Morgan
Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly. -- Troy Polamalu
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes. -- Edmund Wilson
I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil. -- Dave Mustaine
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government -- Senator John Kerry
What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false. -- Guy Debord
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government. -- John F. Kerry
You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy. -- William Gibson
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly. -- Harriet Rubin
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. -- John Tillotson
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help. -- BrenÃ© Brown
When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual. -- Edward Snowden
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. -- Norton Juster
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity. -- M. C. Escher
That's the last time you're going to kiss me," I warned when it ended. He smiled knowingly, and in his eyes, I could see his own memories of that night. "So you say. -- Richelle Mead
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction. -- David Novak
I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear. -- Dustin Hoffman
Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body. -- Jack London
There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him. -- John Calvin

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