Knows Quotes - Page 37

• You know what you like, you know what you want. So all you have to do is find something work related to that stuff

  Novala Takemoto

  Want, Stuff, Like You

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• Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, People, Purpose

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe. "I know, I know, they can fix things like that these days. Call me a feminist, but I think a woman's worth should be defined not by the size of her bust, but - " I rammed my fist up into his Adam's apple. He grunted and stumbled back. "- by the strength of her right hook.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Struggle, Thinking, Apples

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

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• Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Baby, Sleep, Legs

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.11, Penguin

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• Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

  Jean Rhys

  Lasts

  Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books

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• I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sleep, Doors, Waiting

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• I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

  Rebecca Stead

  Life, Steps, Cases

  Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.134, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

  Hermann Hesse

  Siddhartha, Alive, World

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• He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  School, Mean, Boys

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• There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Reflection, Thinking, Heard

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.202, Random House

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• Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Birth, Pinnacle

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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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• You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Writing, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Believe, Reality, Confirmation

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• Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad fact that this person actually thinks he bringing some joy into your life. Somewhere he had a mother who sifted through a shoe box of mimeographed playbills, pouring herself another drink and wondering when her son would come to his senses and swallow some drain cleaner.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Son, Thinking

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• Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Christian, Inspiration

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• It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, War, Inspiration

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• When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

  William Gibson

  Engineering, Design, Want

  William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.183, Penguin

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• If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Amy Carmichael (2016). “If: Devotional Edition”, p.51, Aneko Press

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• We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiration, Loss, Needs

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• Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

  Ann Brashares

  Love, Running, Know How

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2012

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• Shane talking to Claire - "Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..." "Shut up" Claire said.

  Rachel Caine

  Talking, Long, Shut Up

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• Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Atheism, Want

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• I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.” This was met with silence. “Are you there?” She was slurring her words now, which was embarrassing, so she took a deep breath. “Cam? Can you hear me?” “Yes, chickens aren’t sexy. Uh…I don’t think they’re meant to be.

  Jill Shalvis

  Sexy, Thinking, Silence

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• No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

  Chaim Potok

  World, Way, Unfortunate

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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