Knowing Quotes - Page 24

• We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Together, Needs, World

  Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.182, Penguin

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• Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

  Richelle Mead

  Life And Death, Would Be, World

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.191, Penguin

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• When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

  Mitch Albom

  Baby, Hands, Doe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Mean, Lists

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• I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

  Douglas Adams

  Wise, Eye, Lost Ones

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2013). “Last Chance To See”, p.104, Random House

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• I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

  Richard Wright

  Another Chance, Awful, Moments

  Richard Wright (2009). “Black Boy”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Art, Art Is, Psychotherapy

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• She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Hands, Waiting

  BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD (1988). “TO BE THE BEST”

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• And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Believe, Differences, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Men, Play

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 34 (Henry Crawford)

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• [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.

  Tom Wolfe

  Men, Perception, Brain

  Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Morning, Heart, Cutting

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• i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

  Charlaine Harris

  Hate, Not Knowing, I Hate

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• Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Rain, Night, Love Is

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• What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

  David Levithan

  Lonely, Differences, Comfort

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.184, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

  Laura Lippman

  Past, Foundation, Remember

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• First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

  A.M. Jenkins

  Lesson Learned, Lessons, Firsts

  A. M. Jenkins (2009). “Repossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  World, Limits, Impossible

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• Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.

  P. L. Travers

  Running, Grandmother, Blood

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• How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Dark, Sea, Mind

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Couple, Hands

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• I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.

  Ally Carter

  Children, Glasses, Silence

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

  Ann Brashares

  Mean, Way, Scared

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.415, Delacorte Press

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Feel Better, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

  Charles Portis

  Heart, Men

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.30, A&C Black

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