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Knowing Quotes (page 595)

I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. Alice Walker
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! Leo Tolstoy
Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'. Thomas Hardy
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do John Ruskin
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. Tom Robbins
I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my head, and he cleared his throat. It's okay,' I said. 'I know I'm blue.'It caught me by surprise,' he said. 'I didn't want to seem rude. Janet Evanovich
Learn from the people Plan with the people Begin with what they have Build on what they know Of the best leaders When the task is accomplished The people will remark We have done it ourselves. Lao Tzu
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Philip Roth
Mitch Albom quote: "There is everything you know and there is everything that..."
There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. Mitch Albom
I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do."A rule?"If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time. Haruki Murakami
Today. While the blossoms still cling to the vine. I'll taste your strawberries. I'll drink your sweet wine. A million tomorrows shall all pass away. Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today. I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover. You know who I am by the songs that I sing. I'll feast at your table. I'll sleep in your clover. Who cares what tomorrow shall bring. I can't be contented with yesterday's glory. I can't live on promises winter to spring. Today is my moment and now is my story.... John Denver
Dolly Parton quote: "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know..."
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either. Dolly Parton
Alice Hoffman quote: "Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or..."
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. Alice Hoffman
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves. Wendell Berry
Don Marquis quote: "Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are..."
Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. Don Marquis

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