Knowing Quotes - Page 12

• The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

  Michelle Tea

  Thinking, Two, People

  Michelle Tea (1998). “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America”, Semiotext(e)

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• Love means knowing when to let go.

  Tony Parsons

  Love, Letting Go, Mean

  Tony Parsons (2001). “Man and Boy: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

  Joss Whedon

  Mean, Matter

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• Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?

  Salman Rushdie

  Cheer, Giving Up, Fate

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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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• As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

  Tiger Woods

  Family, Children, Home

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• O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  June, Valleys, Beard

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

  Prince William

  Queens, Boys, Seeing

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• The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had given her.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

  Hayley Williams

  Home, People, Crowds

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered?

  Simon R. Green

  Blood, Games, Play

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• It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Knowing Who You Are, Starting Over, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.227, Vintage

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• And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Dark, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Grandmother, Clothes, Space

  "Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Interviews Oprah Winfrey Live Online". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

  Alison Croggon

  Singing, Together, Different

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• But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

  Steve Wozniak

  Lying, Politics, Firsts

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• Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Depression, Insanity

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Moving On, Ignorance, Feigning

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• I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Growing Up, London, Remember

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Blood, Law, Vampire

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• Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

  Kate Morton

  Fun, Keeping Secrets, Likes

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

  Rachel Zoe

  Eight, Years, People

  "Rachel Zoe's Style DOs and DON'Ts" by Rachel Zoe, www.glamour.com. August 12, 2012.

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• And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.

  Sarah Dessen

  Air, Toes, Cliffs

  "This Lullaby". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2002.

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