"Teenagers today are more free to be themselves……" — John Knowles
"Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves."
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42 Quotes by John Knowles
John Knowles has 42 quotes on this site.
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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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I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing,…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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