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Knowing Quotes (page 635)

C. S. Lewis quote: "Lucy! Lu! Where are you? I know you're here."
Lucy! Lu! Where are you? I know you're here. C. S. Lewis
Ringo Starr quote: "I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school..."
I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me. Ringo Starr
When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the stairs and took a last look down the goddam corridor. I was sort of crying. I don't know why. I put my red hunting hat on, and turned the peak around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I yelled at the top of my goddam voice, "Sleep tight, ya morons!" I'll bet I woke up every bastard on the whole floor. Then I got the hell out. Some stupid guy had thrown peanut shells all over the stairs, and I damn... J. D. Salinger
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. Samuel Johnson
You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. --Mr. Woodcourt Charles Dickens
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave. Don DeLillo
You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.' And how long is that going to take?' I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.' That could be a long time.' I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer. Wendell Berry
John Steinbeck quote: "What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways? We don't..."
What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways? We don't know no pants rabbits. John Steinbeck
Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.' Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously. Suzanne Collins
Wallace Stevens quote: "Children picking up our bones. Will never know that these were..."
Children picking up our bones. Will never know that these were once. As quick as foxes on the hill; Wallace Stevens
Mercedes Lackey quote: "It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows..."
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing. Mercedes Lackey
Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing I've been fleeing all my life. and (here it comes): a librarian is just not that easy to become...Apparently there's a whole filing system and annotating system and stamping system and God knows what you have to learn before you qualify. Elaine Dundy
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs Tom Waits
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depths of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. Charles Dickens

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