Knowing Quotes (page 725)

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• today
• getting
• points

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started. William Safire

• students
• new year
• cheer

Albus Dumbledore had gotten to his feet. He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there."Welcome!" he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"Thank you!"He sat back down. Everybody clapped and cheered. Harry didn't know whether to laugh or not. J. K. Rowling

• look
• life
• art

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. Jodi Picoult

• good
• light
• evening

Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it. Jason Mraz

• world
• knowing oneself
• know

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne

• look
• things
• keep

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Marcus Aurelius

• look
• may
• saying

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. William Wilberforce

• princess
• charming
• his

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess. Demi Lovato

• know
• never
• ask

What's up?" [asked Ford.]I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there. Douglas Adams

• good
• him
• evening

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. Joseph Heller

• you me
• never assume
• assume

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled. Ellen DeGeneres

• fear
• confused
• failure

The only private language I know is self-exaggeration. I think I've grown a second self in this room. It's the self-important fool that keeps the writer going. I exaggerate the pain of writing, the pain of solitude, the failure, the rage, the confusion, the helplessness, the fear, the humiliation. The narrower the boundaries of my life, the more I exaggerate myself. If the pain is real, why do I inflate it? Maybe this is the only pleasure I'm allowed. Don DeLillo

• die
• sweat
• pool

Do you remember a little phenom called step aerobics? If you do, then you know how crazy it was to take two ninety-minute classes in a row. It’s incredible that I didn’t die from a blunt injury to the back of my head from slipping on my own pool of sweat. Kathy Griffin

• light
• science
• world

Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world Louis Pasteur

• excuses
• new
• comforting

To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His... Aiden Wilson Tozer