Best They Knew Lines
270 They Knew quotes by 234 unique authors
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As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have…
— Helen Fisher
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We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you,…
— Conrad Aiken
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But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral…
— John Steinbeck
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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
— Arundhati Roy
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The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they…
— Andy Rooney
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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss…
— Robert Frost
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When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
— Pablo Neruda
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We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager…
— James St. James
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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
— Rumi
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This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be…
— Ayn Rand
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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat…
— Blaise Pascal
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what…
— Alan Alda
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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
— Ernest Hemingway
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After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the…
— Claudia Gray
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They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
— Neal Stephenson
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
— Albert Camus
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Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I…
— Stephen Chbosky
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The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.
— Jostein Gaarder
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I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought…
— Jay Asher
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so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this…
— Taylor Swift
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Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
— Kate Morton
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