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Knowing Quotes (page 730)

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory Arthur Miller
Paul Eluard quote: "I cannot be knownBetter than you know me"
I cannot be knownBetter than you know me Paul Eluard
Suzanne Collins quote: "We could do it, you know."
We could do it, you know. Suzanne Collins
I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned. Umberto Eco
There is something in that, I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words as Liberty, Excitement, Enjoyment; delightful sounds truly; but no more than sounds for me; and so hollow and fleeting that it is mere waste of time to listen to them. Charlotte Bronte
It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little shatter-brained creature; but now you have been forced to have your wits about you... Jane Austen
Unfailing faith is fortified through prayer. Your heartfelt pleadings are important to Him. Think of the intense and impassioned prayers of the Prophet Joseph Smith during his dreadful days of incarceration in Liberty Jail. The Lord responded by changing the Prophet’s perspective. He said, ‘Know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. Russell M. Nelson
John Milton quote: "Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their..."
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? John Milton
Why do you give me cars?"It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?"You love me?"Yes."A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?"In a very large way," Ranger said. Janet Evanovich
As I looked at her there among the pumpkins I was overcome with the color and the intesity of my life. In these moments we are driven to try and hoard happiness by taking photographs, but I know better. The improtant thing was what the colors stood for, the taste of hard apples and the existence of Lena and the exact quality of the sun on the last warm day in October. A photograph would have flattened the scene into a happy moment, whereas what I felt was rapture. The fleeting certainty that... Barbara Kingsolver
And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?"Can't girls seek their fortune?"I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune. Terry Prachett
As I stood in my lonely bedroom at the hotel, trying to tie my white tie myself, it struck me for the first time that there must be whole squads of chappies in the world who had to get along without a man to look after them. I'd always thought of Jeeves as a kind of natural phenomenon; but, by Jove! of course, when you come to think of it, there must be quite a lot of fellows who have to press their own clothes themselves and haven't got anybody to bring them tea in the morning, and so on. It... P. G. Wodehouse
Terry Prachett quote: "Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be..."
Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening. Terry Prachett
Tom Hanks quote: "childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you..."
...childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for thinking this way? Tom Hanks
Well, you know that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was justly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of... Joseph Conrad

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