Knowing Quotes - Page 35

• I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

  Maureen Johnson

  Beautiful, Caring, Two

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.16, Penguin

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• But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

  Kiran Desai

  Believe, Pride, Self

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.285, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Fall, Sleep

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• I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

  Andrew Vachss

  Ideas, People, Want

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• Knowing I wasn't going anywhere, I frantically searched for some way to help her. A dark figure caught my eye. "Christian!" I yelled. He'd been staring at Lissa's retreating figure but glanced up at the sound of his name. One of my escorts shushed me and took my arm. "Be quiet." I ignored her. "Go after her," I called to Christian. "Hurry." He just sat there, and I suppressed a groan. "Go, you idiot!" My guardians snapped at me to be quiet again, but something inside of Christian woke up. Springing up from his lounging position, he tore off in the direction Lissa had traveled.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Eye, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.151, Penguin

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• Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss?

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Kissing, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.181, Scholastic UK

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• There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

  Meg Cabot

  Differences, Listening, Hearing

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2014

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• We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Together, Needs, World

  Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.182, Penguin

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• Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

  Richelle Mead

  Life And Death, Would Be, World

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.191, Penguin

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• When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

  Mitch Albom

  Baby, Hands, Doe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Mean, Lists

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• Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.

  Emma Forrest

  Voice, Dancer, Heaven

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• I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

  Douglas Adams

  Wise, Eye, Lost Ones

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2013). “Last Chance To See”, p.104, Random House

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• I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

  Richard Wright

  Another Chance, Awful, Moments

  Richard Wright (2009). “Black Boy”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

  Philip Sington

  Being In Love, Love Is, Priorities

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• The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Art, Art Is, Psychotherapy

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• She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Hands, Waiting

  BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD (1988). “TO BE THE BEST”

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• And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Believe, Differences, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Men, Play

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 34 (Henry Crawford)

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• [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.

  Tom Wolfe

  Men, Perception, Brain

  Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Morning, Heart, Cutting

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• i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

  Charlaine Harris

  Hate, Not Knowing, I Hate

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• Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Rain, Night, Love Is

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• What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

  David Levithan

  Lonely, Differences, Comfort

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.184, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

  Laura Lippman

  Past, Foundation, Remember

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