Knows Quotes (page 680)

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• personal
• author
• city

Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be all abroad, when we get deeper into the story. Clear your mind of the children, or the dinner, or the new bonnet, or what not. Try if you can't forget politics, horses, prices in the city and grievances at the club. I hope you won't take this freedom on my part amiss; it's only a way I have of appealing to a gentle reader. Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in... Wilkie Collins

• she
• queer
• her

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often. Ray Bradbury

• heart
• humanity
• words

Never say you know the last word about any human heart. Henry James

• friendship
• knowing
• failing

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship. Bill Watterson

• thinking
• best
• wellness

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. A. A. Milne

• love
• world
• heads

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head. Frank McCourt

• door
• close
• closing

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open Bob Marley

• ways
• idealistic
• know

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way. Carl Sandburg

• thoughts
• end
• street

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett

• future
• popular
• powerful

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. Joseph Pulitzer

• boss
• she
• manly

Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed. Robert A. Heinlein

• business
• happy
• good

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today Sydney Smith

• vision
• loneliness
• cheer

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone. Henry David Thoreau

• life
• recognized
• scar

Like officer Dave. He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other. Sherman Alexie

• kiss
• you me
• life

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong! Diana Wynne Jones