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Knowing Quotes (page 809)

One never need leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes - I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. Frank O'Hara
Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I had revealed to him? If my tears spilled now, he would see them. If I trembled now, he would know. Anne Rice
William Shakespeare quote: "Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be..."
Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave. William Shakespeare
Gustave Flaubert quote: "My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of..."
My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world. Gustave Flaubert
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible..."
sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise and sheer blind luck. Neil Gaiman
Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us. Daphne du Maurier
Maya Angelou quote: "You did the best that you knew how. Now that you know better,..."
You did the best that you knew how. Now that you know better, you'll do better. Maya Angelou
I know it has a grand sound to say ye'll accept no salvation which leaves even one creature in the dark outside. But watch that sophistry or ye'll make a Dog in a Manger the tyrant of the universe. C. S. Lewis
Sentences are made wonderfully one at a time. Who makes them. Nobody can make them because nobody can what ever they do see. All this makes sentences so clear I know how I like them. What is a sentence mostly what is a sentence. With them a sentence is with us about us all about us we will be willing with what a sentence is. A sentence is that they cannot be carefully there is a doubt about it. The great question is can you think a sentence. What is a sentence. He thought a sentence. Who... Gertrude Stein
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you..."
Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...)Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do. Marion Zimmer Bradley
The great and only possible dignity of man lies in his power deliberately to choose certain moral values by which to live as steadfastly as if he, too, like a character in a play, were immured against the corrupting rush of time. Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. As far as we know, as far as there exists any kind of empiric evidence, there is no way to beat the beat the game of being against non-being, in which non-being is the... Tennessee Williams
One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. George Sand
Blaise Pascal quote: "The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know."
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal

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