Knowing Quotes - Page 30

• Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

  Edward Albee

  Running, Responsibility, Errors

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.116, Da Capo Press

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• I want.." she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.

  Laini Taylor

  Feelings, Want, Said

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• Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing

  Sarah Dessen

  Not Knowing, Better Off

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.247, Penguin

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• It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Information, Absence

  Orson Scott Card (2008). “Ender in Exile”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Past, Survival, Important

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Rose, Joy, Savages

  Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Illumination”, p.37, Random House

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• The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.

  Wes Moore

  Adversity, Fighting, Ubuntu

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.168, Spiegel & Grau

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• How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Hands, World

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.136, Penguin

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• When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.

  Jean Rhys

  Eye, Talking, Looks

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• Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Fighting, Wish, Battle

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.193, Allison & Busby

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• there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.

  Emily Giffin

  People, Comforting, Way

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.196, Macmillan

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• That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Strong, Feelings, Trying

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• Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is con­nected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I’m always surprised when somebody funny is not musical.

  Conan O'Brien

  Creating, Musical, Let It Go

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• But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Hurt, People, Different

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• Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Things In Life, Excess, Done

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• Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Enjoy, Sun Also Rises

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Perseverance, Quitting, Sometimes

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.483, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

  Vera Nazarian

  Responsibility, Stories, World

  Vera Nazarian (2004). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.174, Wildside Press LLC

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• Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Winning, Thinking, Guy

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• Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.’ – Cherise

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Shut Up, Ninety, Percent

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• Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Lying, Sheep, Years

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• ...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.

  Mira Grant

  Sky, People, Mouths

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• Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Finals, Defeat, Reason

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• We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

  George Orwell

  Dust, Years, True Life

  George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

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