Knowing Quotes - Page 11

• I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

  Angie Stone

  People, Joy, Special

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• I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

  Sara Ryan

  Ideas, Differences, Making A Difference

  Sara Ryan (2009). “Rules for Hearts”, p.94, Penguin

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• It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Discovery, World, Matter

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868-1869.

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• If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

  Tom Stoppard

  Play, Perfect, Different

  "Pacing It" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.

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• I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Want, Language

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Names, Issues

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• But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

  Albert Camus

  Men, Two, Four

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Patriotism

  Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

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• These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking. Jonah Griggs takes my hand under the table and links my fingers with his and I know that I would sacrifice almost anything just to keep this state of mind, for the rest of the week at least.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Hands

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• I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Skins, Needs

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• I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

  Anais Nin

  Snakes, Battle, Poison

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• So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

  William P. Young

  Relationship, Believe, And Love

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• If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Years, Culture, Firsts

  "The bedsit epiphany". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Brother, Father, Heart

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!

  Kelley Armstrong

  Santa, Santa Claus, Seeing

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• His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Ocean, Eye

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Two, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1959). “Creation and fall: a theological interpretation of Genesis 1-3”

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• Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Waiting, Beast

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• I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

  Carrie Underwood

  People, Creepy, Underwear

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• I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Workout, Feelings, Finishing

  "Jenna's Tips For Getting Through A Tough Workout". www.seventeen.com. February 27, 2012.

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• … in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

  Anne Rice

  Struggle, Sight, Doors

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.600, Ballantine Books

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• Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Attitude, Heart

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• After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

  Douglas Coupland

  Suicidal, Thinking, Doors

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• That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.

  Gene Wolfe

  Feel Better, Things In Life, Trying

  Gene Wolfe (2007). “Pirate Freedom”, p.252, Macmillan

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• I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

  Johnny Vegas

  Dad, Real, Sleep

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