"As I walked briskly out the road the……" — John Knowles
"As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck."
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42 Quotes by John Knowles
John Knowles has 42 quotes on this site.
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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
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Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun.…
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This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood,…
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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
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It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the…
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Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must…
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I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid…
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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought…
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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their…
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We are all born equally far from the sun.
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Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of…
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It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
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More Briskly Quotes
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them…
— Primo Levi
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I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about…
— Terry Teachout
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Will it, and set to work briskly.
— Friedrich Schiller
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a…
— Samuel Johnson
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
— Baltasar Gracian
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These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas,…
— Brenda Ueland
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As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.
— Harvey Mackay
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'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as…
— Emily Dickinson
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In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the…
— Alan Coren
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never…
— Frances Hardinge
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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