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Knows Quotes (page 678)

Fannie Flagg quote: "I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters...."
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones. Fannie Flagg
Andy Warhol quote: "I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts."
I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. Andy Warhol
Mitch Albom quote: "You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things,..."
You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. Mitch Albom
Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish. Rumi
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior. James Baldwin
Leo Tolstoy quote: "He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he..."
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. Leo Tolstoy
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "are you learning me by heart little Sara No I know you by..."
are you learning me by heart little Sara No I know you by heart you are inside my heart Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when..."
We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us. Dorothy L. Sayers
Those of us who give body and soul to projects that never seem to end- child rearing, housecleaning, gardening- know the value of the occasional closed door. We need our moments of declared truce. Barbara Kingsolver
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor: he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. Mark Twain
I’m sitting in the prow-shaped dining room of a tourist steamer, the Georgi Zhukov, on the Yenisei River, which flows from the foothills of Mongolia to the Arctic Ocean, thus cleaving the northern Eurasian plain – a distance of some two and a half thousand versts. Given Russian distances, and the general arduousness of Russian life, you’d expect a verst to be the equivalent of – I don’t know – thirty-nine miles. In fact it’s barely more than a kilometer. Martin Amis
I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it? Haruki Murakami
I looked over at him. "Is that a proposal?"There was total silence for a couple beats. "I'm not sure. It just popped out."Let me know when you're sure."Would you say yes?" Morelli asked."I'm not sure. Janet Evanovich
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. H. L. Mencken
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one. Cormac McCarthy

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