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270 They Knew quotes by 234 unique authors
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How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them…
— Stephen Chbosky
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And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both…
— Arundhati Roy
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Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true…
— James M. Barrie
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When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn’t a bad sad…
— Stephen Chbosky
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Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness,…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for…
— Jeff Lindsay
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We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much…
— Sarah Waters
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The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped
— Lauren Oliver
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Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.
— Bruce Chatwin
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I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals…
— Rick Riordan
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Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of…
— Cassandra Clare
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I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they…
— Charles Bukowski
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He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would be…
— Cassandra Clare
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People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had
— Ann Aguirre
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The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because…
— Mark Levin
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In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
— John Charles Polanyi
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They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.
— Jim Rogers
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You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master…
— Anthony de Mello
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My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect…
— Brian Dennehy
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In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to…
— Brian Eno
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