Knowing Quotes - Page 25

• We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

  Sophie Kinsella

  The End Of The Day, Important, Too Short

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Shopaholic Ties The Knot: (Shopaholic Book 3)”, p.305, Random House

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• If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

  Dan Abnett

  Firsts, Speak, Window

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• ...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

  Jan Karon

  Understanding, Littles, Too Much

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.242, Penguin

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• It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, Perfect, Trying

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• To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Perfect, Left Hand, Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.55, Penguin

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• The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

  Erich Segal

  Pain, Done, Not Knowing

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cheer, Fall, Knives

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.524, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Anthony grinned at her, knowing that would probably infuriate her all the more. "My eyes have been a-wandering, as you put it, for the last nineteen years. Give them a rest, Roslynn. They settled on you and don't want to move on.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Moving, Eye, Years

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• But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, Hands, Years

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Looks, World, Venture

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.602, Dell

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• There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

  Jude Deveraux

  Men, Desire, Ancient

  Jude Deveraux (2008). “Secrets: A Novel”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowing and believing are sometimes hard to combine.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Believe, Sometimes, Hard

  Maria V. Snyder (2011). “Outside In”, p.124, Harlequin

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• I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.

  Juliet Marillier

  Strong, Two, Laughing

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Seer of Sevenwaters: A Sevenwaters Novel 5”, p.391, Pan Australia

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• Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

  Patricia Briggs

  Life, Challenges, Victory

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• There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

  David Bowie

  World, Terror, Superhuman

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• The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, People, Thought Provoking

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• There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Want Something, Deeper

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

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• It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Perception, Without You

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.240, Penguin

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• All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.

  John Green

  Book, People, Listening

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Knowing Love, Frozen

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• I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Song, Winning

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• And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open and empty and let it all pass through you. This is the key, you have learned – to relinquish control, to relinquish the desire for control. Even in this late drama, to try to control is to go mad. And so you do your best to let it all go.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Drama, Grief, Keys

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• Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Answers, Next, Sometimes

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• I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Hurt, Thinking, Giving

  Lurlene McDaniel (2010). “Time to Let Go”, p.61, Laurel Leaf

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• If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.

  Helen Fielding

  Matter, Habit, Force

  Helen Fielding (2012). “Cause Celeb”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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