Knows Quotes - Page 35

• Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Moving, Past, Helping

  4 Copy quote

• Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.

  Alexandra Potter

  Eye, Too Late, How You Feel

  Alexandra Potter (2010). “You're the One that I don't want”, p.223, Hachette UK

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's with the disco lights?" Michael said, rolling down the window between the driver's compartment and the back. Eve turned around, and her face brightened. "You like it? I thought it looked really cool. I saw it in a movie, you know, in a limo." "It's cool," Michael said, and smiled at her. She smiled back. "Can't wait to lie here and watch it with you." Claire said, "You don't have to wait; it's working now. Look--Oh. Never mind." She blushed, feeling stupid that she hadn't gotten that one in the first second. Eve winked at her.

  Rachel Caine

  Lying, Stupid, Light

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.156, Allison & Busby

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?

  Sharon M. Draper

  Blow, Moments, Enough

  Sharon M. Draper (2006). “Tears of a Tiger”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Mind, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ut cum spiritu postrema sacramentum dejuremus," he chanted. "Et hostes ornamenta addent ad ianuam necem." "You just...finished the prophesy,"Rachael stammered. "-An oath to keep with a final breath/And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. How did you-" "I know those lines." Jason winced and put his hands to his temples. "I don't know how, but I KNOW that prophecy." "In Latin, no less," Drew called out. "Handsome AND smart.

  Rick Riordan

  Latin, Smart, Doors

  4 Copy quote

• Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Men, Progress

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Sorry," she said, "I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know." "Explain protocol," Nell said. This was how she always talked to the Primer. "At the place we’re going, you need to watch your manners. Don’t say 'explain this' or 'explain that.'" "Would it impose on your time unduly to provide me with a concise explanation of the term protocol?" Nell said. Again Rita made that nervous laugh and looked at Nell with an expression that looked like poorly concealed alarm.

  Neal Stephenson

  Sorry, Expression, Laughing

  "The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer". Book by Neal Stephenson, February 1995.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

  T. H. White

  People, Perfection, Ifs

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was so worried that you wouldn’t want to know me once you found out.” I signed, relief flooding through me. “Are you kidding me?” Xavier reached out and curled a lock of my hair around his finger. “Surely I’ve got to be the luckiest guy in the world.” “How do you figure that?” “Isn’t it obvious? I’ve got my own little piece of Heaven right here.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Hair, Guy, Heaven

  4 Copy quote

• Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.

  Douglas Adams

  Stupid, Knowing, Important

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.

  Douglas Adams

  Advice, Sound, Usual

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.677, Pan Macmillan

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Prayer, Knowing

  "Mostly Harmless". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 9, 1992.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Children, Sight, Astonishment

  4 Copy quote

• Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Yes I Can, People

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.252, Vintage Canada

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him." "Why?" "Because I wanted to be with you.

  Ann Brashares

  Believe, Eye, Scare

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.208, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

  Fred Rogers

  Confused, Love Is, People

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.22, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Mean, Golf

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

  Roberto Bolano

  Looks, Know How, Ifs

  14 Copy quote

• Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

  Georgette Heyer

  Girl, Men, Common Sense

  4 Copy quote

• The past is all we know of the future.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Past

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.316, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

  Per Petterson

  Dying, Gone, Impossible

  4 Copy quote

• To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

  Charles Taylor

  Commitment, Who I Am, Knowing

  Charles Taylor (1992). “Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oh, Jason, I couldn't get my locker open...I know, I tried twisting it right, then left, but it wouldn't budge. I guess I'm just not strong enough. Could you help me? Please? Oh, great. Oh, Jason, you're so strong... Seriously? That was me now? On the other hand , a guy was following me.

  Meg Cabot

  Strong, Hands, Guy

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 3: Runaway”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and it cannot be given as a present or inherited from our ancestors. We cannot depend on the testimonies of other people. We need to know for ourselves. President Gordon B. Hinckley said, ‘Every Latter-day Saint has the responsibility to know for himself or herself with a certainty beyond doubt that Jesus is the resurrected, living Son of the living God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Responsibility, Son

  21 Copy quote