Knowing Quotes - Page 33

• Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Wish, Facts

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• You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Awareness, Used

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Scotland, Trying

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• As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moon, Sky, Lines

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 1999.

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• I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.

  Ann Aguirre

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Hell Fire: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.80, Penguin

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• We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

  Kim Harrison

  Laughter, Doors, Als

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• She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Relief, Time To Think

  Dave Eggers (2010). “Zeitoun”, p.133, Vintage

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• So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Purpose, Chance, Seeing

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• And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Evil, Tree, Miracle

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• We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

  Carol Shields

  Hands, Want, Kind

  Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin

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• I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.

  Joe Hill

  Laughing, Listening, Shooting

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• I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.

  Anne Stuart

  Father, Acceptance, Common Sense

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• Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Couple, Sky, Car

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 17, 2012

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• there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

  Jodi Picoult

  Nice, Fit, My Sister's Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Daniel's face-- the way it had been bathed in violet light when he'd carried her home this morning-- appeared before her eyes. His gleaming golden hair. His tender, knowing eyes. The way one touch of his lips transported her far away from any darkness. For him, she'd suffer all of this, and more.

  Lauren Kate

  Morning, Eye, Home

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.273, Delacorte Press

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• We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Mind, Gone

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.865, Ballantine Books

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• He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Rivers, Feet

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am

  Ernest Holmes

  Support, Way, Imagine

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• But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Light, Leaving

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• But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

  Samuel Beckett

  What Matters, Who I Am, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.219, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

  William Faulkner

  Memories, Believe, Light

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• I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mind, Might, Fool

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• She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said.

  Anne Stuart

  Lying, Love Is, Soul

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• Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.

  Justin Cronin

  Pain, Grief, Doors

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.326, Ballantine Books

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• I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

  David Levithan

  Knowing Who You Are, Trying, Want

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.147, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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