Knowing Quotes - Page 34

• I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.

  Jon Richardson

  Hate, Lucky, Reason

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• Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Childhood, Forever, Important

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• No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything.

  Ilona Andrews

  Bed, Pieces, Safe

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.105, Penguin

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• Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Spring, Flower, Fall

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• All things are strange which are worth knowing.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Strange, All Things

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• A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

  James A. Owen

  Choices, Bears, Willing

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• no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

  William Landay

  Possessing, Possessed, Known

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.125, Delacorte Press

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• That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Funny Things, Desperate

  "Breaking Dawn". Book by Stephenie Meyer, August 2, 2008.

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• Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then Kisten —until I had pinned him in an elevator in a foolish moment of vampire-induced passion. It's hard to be scared of someone after you've French-kissed him.

  Kim Harrison

  Passion, Ivy, Mind

  Kim Harrison (2010). “Every Which Way But Dead”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Trying, Needs, Alive

  Joan D. Vinge (2007). “Psion”, p.302, Macmillan

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• Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Acquisition, Life Is

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• To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

  Ivo Andric

  Ocean, Men, Swim

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• And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, House, Miserable

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.301

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• Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Littles, Ruins, Opinion

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• Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her.

  J. Lynn

  Flames, Funny Things, Lips

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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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• A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.

  Georges Bataille

  Girl, Men, Darkness

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939”, p.6, Manchester University Press

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• I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people’s names isn’t a neurological condition; it’s a choice. You choose not to make learning people’s names a priority. It’s like saying, “Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.

  Mindy Kaling

  Real, Thinking, Names

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.4, Crown/Archetype

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• Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac

  Patricia Briggs

  Desire, Aphrodisiac, Knowing Someone

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.13, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Our eyes met across the crowded room, like in the movies, except we didn't share a knowing smile and race into each other's arms. Instead I fell into the trash can.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Eye, Race, Arms

  Julie Anne Peters (2008). “Luna”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

  Sara Shepard

  Liars, Tv Shows, Answers

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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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• The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mom, Worst, I Can

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