Knows Quotes - Page 12

• The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Important, Persons, Important Things

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.286, Faber & Faber

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

  Richard Powers

  Long, Viruses, Bugs

  Richard Powers (2010). “Generosity”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Want, Fallen

  13 Copy quote

• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Calm, Remember

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Despise, Understand Me, Mr Thornton

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “North and South”, p.211, Courier Corporation

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Feel Better, Long

  "The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), September 30, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now, now," Bast said. "It's not so bad." "Right," I said. "We're stuck in Washington, D.C. We have two days to make it to Arizona and stop a god we don't know how to stop. And if we can't, we'll never see our dad or Amos again, and the world might end." "That's the spirit!" Bast said brightly. "Now, let's have a picnic.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Two, World

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

  John Green

  Fall, Talking, Feelings

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by John Green and David Levithan, April 6, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie said. "Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water." "'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,'" Zia said. "You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?

  Rick Riordan

  Army, Order, Cities

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can help each other, Max, said the unwelcome voice. You're perfect complements to each other. "Shut up!" I hissed under my breath, and Dylan looked startled. "I didn't say anything." Gritting my teeth, I nodded. "No, I know. It's just-" I decided to take a risk and stare him down. "I hear voices, okay? If you're gonna be here, get used to it. Or else keep your distance.

  James Patterson

  Distance, Voice, Perfect

  7 Copy quote

• .."I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her.." ~E.L.~

  Eric Ludy

  Want, Right Now, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

  Sarah Dessen

  Optimism, Fearless, Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly. He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!" "I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.

  Tamora Pierce

  Children, Silly, Hair

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wild Magic”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Sadness, Discovery

  23 Copy quote

• Honey, you need to get laid. (Selena) Why don’t you speak a little louder, Lanie? I don’t think the guys in Canada were able to hear you. (Grace) Oh, I don’t know. They’re probably headed south even as we speak. (Waiter)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Guy, Grace

  5 Copy quote

• His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Expression, Knives

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.29, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Brother, Honesty

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, I would date if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. But most are such a waste of time that I’d rather sit at home and watch reruns of Hee Haw.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Men, Watches

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.6, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Self, Two

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

  114 Copy quote

  Show source

• Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.

  Sarah Monette

  Stars, War, Passion

  10 Copy quote

• A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

  Confucius

  Age, Fifty, Youth

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

  Matthew Pearl

  Dissection

  4 Copy quote

• Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Disappointment, Fans

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

  Bill Watterson

  Differences, Inability, Praying

  31 Copy quote