"Life is fighting. In life, it's the look……" — John Knowles
"Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love."
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John Knowles
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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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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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I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing,…
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make…
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Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I…
— Drew Barrymore
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
— Bernard Baruch
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
— Glenn Beck
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about…
— Vinoba Bhave
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