Knowing Quotes - Page 23

• So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Thinking, Ideas

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• Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.

  Michael Cunningham

  Moving, Reading, Thinking

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• Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.

  David Rakoff

  Lonely, Mean, Kissing

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Nov 09, 2015

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• Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.

  Douglas Adams

  Stupid, Important, Way

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Prayer, Needs

  "Mostly Harmless". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 9, 1992.

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• To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

  Charles Taylor

  Commitment, Who I Am, Trying

  Charles Taylor (1992). “Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Done, Ingredients, Well Known

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Nov 23, 2016

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• One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

  Anita Diament

  Love, Secret, Make Her Smile

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• We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.

  Edna O'Brien

  Different, Persons, Dies

  Edna O'Brien (2002). “The Lonely Girl”, Plume

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• How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Regret, Heart, Two

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.426, Random House

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• Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62

  Craig Clevenger

  Children, Regret, Newborn Child

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• Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Law, Government, Justice

  Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

  Alyson Noel

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

  Ayn Rand

  Greatness, Voice, Feelings

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.66, Hamilton Books

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• She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.

  Julia Quinn

  Girl, Depressing, People

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• I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

  Helen DeWitt

  Morning, Sleep, Wake Up

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• Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

  Richard Russo

  Two, Different, Knowing What To Do

  Richard Russo (2017). “Mohawk”, p.138, Atlantic Books

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• But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.

  Charlie Higson

  Rain, Dvds, Whales

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• I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Not Knowing, Watches

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.168, Modern Library

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• But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

  Kiran Desai

  Believe, Pride, Self

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.285, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Fall, Sleep

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• I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

  Andrew Vachss

  Ideas, People, Want

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• Knowing I wasn't going anywhere, I frantically searched for some way to help her. A dark figure caught my eye. "Christian!" I yelled. He'd been staring at Lissa's retreating figure but glanced up at the sound of his name. One of my escorts shushed me and took my arm. "Be quiet." I ignored her. "Go after her," I called to Christian. "Hurry." He just sat there, and I suppressed a groan. "Go, you idiot!" My guardians snapped at me to be quiet again, but something inside of Christian woke up. Springing up from his lounging position, he tore off in the direction Lissa had traveled.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Eye, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.151, Penguin

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• Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss?

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Kissing, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.181, Scholastic UK

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• There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

  Meg Cabot

  Differences, Listening, Hearing

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2014

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