Knowing Quotes - Page 21

• I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

  Barbara Mertz

  Moving, Effort, Would Be

  4 Copy quote

• The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Feelings, Secret

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.294, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• "I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Dog, Oatmeal

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 27, 2002.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Love You, Breaths, I Can

  4 Copy quote

• Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dark, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Stupid, Thinking, Asking

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.74, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

  Jane Austen

  Teach

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 54 (1813)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Talking, Bullshit, Circumstances

  Harry G. Frankfurt (1988). “The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Alaska, Done, Useless

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

  Louise Penny

  Beautiful, Pain, Tired

  Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.186, Macmillan

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

  Christopher Paolini

  Water, Cliffs, Flight

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.680, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Two, Quality, Fool

  8 Copy quote

• If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  I Hate You, Alaska, Knowing Better

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Love, Dream, Knives

  Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely loving, as if I were enveloped by the music of a love song created just for me. It was not overwhelming or even emotional. Just a warm knowing that I was in God's loving embrace...centered and unified there. [Love]encounters cannot be analyzed, only shared. If you take a butterfly, Robert Frost said, and pin it down into a box, you no longer have a butterfly.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Butterfly, Emotional

  4 Copy quote

• Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Looks, World, Habit

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.201, Applewood Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

  Robin Hobb

  Littles, Taught

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.399, Del Rey

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Believe, Hands

  79 Copy quote

• Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Not Knowing, Helping, Ifs

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Children, Soul, Dying

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Sailing to Sarantium: Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic”, p.153, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Cradle, Knows

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 76), 1963.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Soul

  4 Copy quote

• Sounds good. Drive safe." He sighed, knowing I really meant, "Take care of my Mercedes.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Sound, Care, Safe

  4 Copy quote

• You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moments, Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 15, 2010

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.

  Anita Shreve

  Falling In Love, Party, Son

  7 Copy quote