Knowing Quotes (page 707)

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• football
• life
• your life

In your life, you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team...I didn't know it at fifteen. Taylor Swift

• value
• power
• manly

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength. Jeffrey Archer

• men
• fish
• lively

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau

• look
• sick
• you me

... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney."I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it."Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat."I don't like it," I repeated. S. E. Hinton

• time
• death
• sleep

When in the down I sink my head,Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath;Sleep, Death's twin-brother, knows not Death,Nor can I dream of thee as dead: Alfred Lord Tennyson

• personality
• real
• personal

A real secret is something which only one person knows. Idries Shah

• game
• team
• leadership

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports. Noam Chomsky

• personality
• personal
• manly

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved James Cameron

• dark
• imagination
• life

You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we’re on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness. Nicholas Sparks

• woman to woman
• wanting
• knows

I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be. Diane von Furstenberg

• moving
• work
• believe

What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has moved beyond and that was merely a game played with something in which he does not believe. Thomas Mann

• people
• help
• hard

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them. C. S. Lewis

• desires
• knowingly
• knows

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. Rumi

• mindfulness
• love
• mind

The more I anoint the more my mind adheres physically to the mysterious fabric of love.I am decutie. Worn thin. You know that word? Helene Cixous

• peace
• tiger
• commitment

He yearned to know nothing more about himself, to find peace, to be dead. If only lightning could come and kill him. If only a tiger could come and devour him. If only there were a wine, a poison that could bring him a stupor, bring him sleep and oblivion and no more awakening. Was there any filth with which he had not soiled himself, any sin or folly he had not committed, any spiritual bleakness with which he had not burdened himself? Was it still possible to go on living? Was it possible to... Herman Hesse