- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know Quotes
Quotes on knowing and being known.
These quotes explore both sides of 'know' - the sharp insight of knowing an opponent's weakness in sports, and the disorienting feeling of not knowing anyone after moving to a new city. Related reading includes Always Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020