Knowing Quotes - Page 31

• I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

  Michael Chabon

  Kids, Comfort, World

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• For a moment in time, a man knew me for who I was and, without reservation, loved me for who I was. How can I now live knowing no one will ever see me again in such a perfect light? Hear me as I wish to be heard? Love me as [he] loved me?

  Robin Maxwell

  Men, Light, Perfect

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• I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Before I Fall, Used

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

  Jane Austen

  Six, Wonder, Accomplished

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.33

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• The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

  George Monbiot

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

  Anne Rice

  Compassion, Evil, Mercy

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.295, Ballantine Books

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• Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

  Sam Harris

  Son, Doubt, Body

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Dog, Eye, Doors

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• I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• It matters to me. That's what you don't get. You can't understand. You can't understand what it's like knowing what I did. That whole time being Strigoi...It's like a dream now, but it's one I remember clearly. There can be no forgiveness for me. And what happened with you? I remember that most of all. Everything I did. Everything I wanted to do.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Matter, Remember

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1040, Penguin

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• I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.

  Emilie Autumn

  May, I Smile

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• Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

  Garth Nix

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing Everything

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #5: Lady Friday”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

  Barbara Mertz

  Moving, Effort, Would Be

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• The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Feelings, Secret

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.294, Penguin

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• "I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Dog, Oatmeal

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 27, 2002.

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• I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Love You, Breaths, I Can

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• Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dark, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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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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• She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Farewell, Emotional

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.210, Penguin

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• We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

  Jane Austen

  Teach

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 54 (1813)

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• Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Fashion, Past, Knowing Nothing

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• My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

  Pink

  Party, Naked, Definitions

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• Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Talking, Bullshit, Circumstances

  Harry G. Frankfurt (1988). “The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Alaska, Done, Useless

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

  Louise Penny

  Beautiful, Pain, Tired

  Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.186, Macmillan

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