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Knowing Quotes (page 821)

Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Walking along the crowded row. He met the one he used to know."
Walking along the crowded row. He met the one he used to know. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I do not see why I should ?er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew? Only more sure of all I thought was true. Robert Frost
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew."He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six."Right."And you're the oldest."Yes."That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. Orson Scott Card
Albert Camus quote: "Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I..."
Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer). Albert Camus
As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen. Barbara Pym
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you..."
You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita Laurell K. Hamilton
Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. Paulo Coelho
Sherman Alexie quote: "We only know how to lose and be lost."
We only know how to lose and be lost. Sherman Alexie
In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again. Arthur C. Clarke
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure. Kate DiCamillo
Ray Bradbury quote: "You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. Ray Bradbury
I can only hope that, upon learning of my imminent execution, Good Samaritans in Colorado will be moved to ship me a plump love apple from their backyard patch - and should they happen to be friendly with Hunter S. Thompson, perhaps persuade him to inject it with a little something beforehand. Hunter will know just what I mean, and trust me, it won't affect the taste of the tomato.**When I wrote those lines, Thompson was alive and blooming. Now, with his sad demise, still more color has faded... Tom Robbins
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment... Octave Mirbeau
John Steinbeck quote: "How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us..."
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? John Steinbeck
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. Albert Camus

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