Sentence examples for was to know everything from inspiring English sources

The Stasi's motto was "to know everything".

Standard FSB protocol was to hide bugs everywhere, he says, including in the bathroom and the bedroom: "Our motto was to know everything".

No society in history has been so police-saturated, and the Stasi's job was to know everything about everyone - their friends, their movements, their thoughts, even their smells (scraps of clothing were taken from suspects and kept in jars for the police tracker dogs).

The daily devotion is attested by a rubber stamp in their small record books, which are checked at school by the teacher or at home by the inminban leader, the warden whose duty was to know everything about his or her charges in the building.

So, the difficulty, once I'd got the voice, was to know everything about her.

Messner has entered into nowhere but his misfortune is to know everything about it.

The only way we can keep people and populations healthy is to know everything about their health care experience.

I wanted to know everything there was to know.

When inquiring how a child was doing, she wanted to know everything there was to know about him.

She knew everything there was to know about style, and survival.

"In my 20s, I thought I knew everything there was to know," he said.