Knowing Quotes - Page 22

• But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

  James Frey

  Believe, Thinking, People

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, Lying, Mind

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

  Hannah Arendt

  Numbers, Development, Demand

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• She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

  Voltaire

  Crush, Voice, Spokes

  Voltaire (2003). “Candide”, p.16, Bantam Classics

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• I look at him more than a little shocked by his words knowing how much he likes being right being in charge most people do.

  Alyson Noel

  People, Looks, Littles

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• Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Simple, Sometimes, Break

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.17, Macmillan

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• He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Running, Dare, Consoling

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• It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Morning, Health, Decision

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• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Waiting, New Life

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

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• He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Two, Space

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.510, Pan Macmillan

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• Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Self

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• Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Real, Can Do, Real Power

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• For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Lying, Drinking

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• I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

  Jim Butcher

  Wise, Heart, Mean

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1685, Penguin

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• Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.

  Brené Brown

  Two, Poverty, Steps

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• It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Baseball, Running

  Michael Chabon (2002). “Summerland”, Miramax

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• There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Country, Philosophy, Book

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• If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.

  Angela Johnson

  Live Life, Lasts, Firsts

  Angela Johnson (2010). “The First Part Last”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

  Truman Capote

  Forever, Goes On, Lasts

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• I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Volleyball, Blood

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jesus, Home, Views

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.85, Faber & Faber

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• A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  America, Weakness, Nickels

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• 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

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