Even Knowing Quotes

#1. As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Politicians show no signs of even knowing the difference between negative and positive rights. Blinded by the dazzle of anything that makes them popular, they honestly may not be able to tell.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.

Richard Bachman

#4. The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

Robert Krulwich

#5. Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Meghan O'Rourke

#6. I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.

Paulo Coelho

#7. Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. I've been waiting for you without even knowing it.

Jay Bell

#9. Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

Frank Miller

#10. Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

Alan Huffman

#11. Time was precious. It could seep past you without you even knowing. And then, in the blink of an eye, it could vanish.

Kara Terzis

#12. Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Orson Scott Card

#13. You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

Studs Terkel

#14. We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. I want every piece of you. Even the stuff I missed without even knowing I was missing it.

Samantha Young

#16. I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.

Jose Andres

#17. We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.

L.J.Smith

#18. ... leaning with her back bowed into the back of the chair, her head hanging down and her hands in her lap, very miserable as she would say herself, not even knowing what she would like, except to go out and get very wet, catch a particularly nice cold and have to go to bed and take gruel.

George MacDonald

#19. Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there.

Orson Scott Card

#21. Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?"
"Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.

Marion Cotillard

#23. What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars - he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off - but on a global scale!

Ernest Cline

#24. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.

Richard Rohr

#25. People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

R. Kelly

#26. How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!

Pam Munoz Ryan

#27. Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it - love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn's leaves and catches them by surprise.

Elizabeth Chandler

#28. I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful.

Stacie Evans

#29. Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't give myself enough credit. I know enough English to, you know, get by. I can order in restaurants and stuff.

Brian Regan

#30. Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.
It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.

Chelsey Philpot

#31. The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.

Robin Sharma

#32. If everything you say gets laughed at ...
then you become afraid of everyone ...
and are no longer able to speak ...
even knowing all that does is bother everyone ...
Your heart ...
... shuts down ...
And your words die ...

Natsuki Takaya

#33. I love that blurry place where life's transitions are made without you even knowing it.

Ann Brashares

#34. My mother said it was like a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#35. Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#36. The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it is, then the illusion is much more valuable and fine a kind of thing than the ass who wants to upset it.

John Dickson Carr

#37. When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

Lana Del Rey

#38. One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

Satchel Paige

#39. The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.

Katie Dale

#40. I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.

Tammara Webber

#41. Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that.

CLAMP

#42. Kami's demons had somehow become mine without me even knowing them. And I swore on my life that I would fight every one of them, I would fight for her.

S.L. Jennings

#43. I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Richard Masur

#44. Yu come face to face with love, and before the sun sets you've become someone you didn't used to be...

It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly and she don't ever need to touch the ground.

Jonathan Hickman

#45. Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the experiences I've had with them. They gave me life, becoming an integral part of my soul. They healed me when I was broken and somehow they recovered those parts of me, I thought lost forever.

J.D. Stroube

#46. Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

Timothy Keller

#47. I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

Oprah Winfrey

#48. I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

Sheri L. Dew

#49. I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. Because when she cut off contact, yeah, I knew what had happened. But it took me a long, long time to believe it.
Some days, I still don't quite believe it.

Gayle Forman

#50. He can read your mind without even knowing."
Dee's face went from pale to bright cherry. "Oh God."
"What?"
She smacked her hands over her face. "Well, the whole time we were downstairs, I was picturing him naked.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#51. I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

Rachel Zoe

#52. Without even knowing, a person goes around scattering their heart. That's why if you're with a smiling person, you end up smiling with them.

Taeyang

#53. If I were somebody dealing with chronic pain, I would see it as a challenge to manage my mind; even knowing that the effect of my thoughts is not only affecting my experience, but it is absolutely affecting the state of my health.

Cheryl Richardson

#54. Trembling" (Phil. 2:12). Even knowing that "it is God who works in [us]" (Phil. 2:13), we are our own responsibility. This is a very different picture than many of us are used to. Some individuals see their needs

Henry Cloud

#55. He was no more, freed from
being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

Philip Roth

#56. I think it's the bravest thing in the world - to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt.

Emery Lord

#57. Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Sandra Brown

#58. There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive.

David Toop

#59. Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger
without even knowing it is happening to you
of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

Edward Albee

#60. We must repent of the way that we, sometimes without even knowing it, have prized the powerful over the powerless.

Russell D. Moore

#61. Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.

Chelsey Philpot

#62. It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Sarah Dessen

#63. Privilege is driving a smooth road and not even knowing it.

Ampersand

#64. Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

David Hackworth

#65. Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ...

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#66. I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

Douglas Coupland

#67. It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.

Paulo Coelho

#68. I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I'd given my heart away to someone who didn't want it. Even knowing that, I didn't regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too.

Abbi Glines

#69. Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

Philip K. Dick

#70. I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so ...

Jake Gyllenhaal

#71. Some people have style without even knowing it!

Theophilus London

#72. We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

Meryl Streep

#73. It distressed him seeing her so upset. And his distress over her distress distressed him even more. Which made no sense being that she continued to lie to him, even knowing what he had at stake.
She was a devil of a confusing woman.

Leigh LaValle

#74. You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

Neale Donald Walsch

#75. Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

#76. The estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

Kazuo Chiba

#77. I am so suggestible. When Chatty asks if I am hungry, I say, "I could be." I would try to become the woman you wanted without even knowing I was trying. As it is, I am barely the woman I am.

Amy Hempel

#78. How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

Trevor McDonald

#79. And because I was competing for world's biggest dumbass, I stayed out there, in the trees, stomach grumbling like a damn engine, and helped her carry in box after box without her even knowing.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#80. But at the same time you know that if a time like that spring were to come around again, and even knowing what you know now, you might well end up making a similar choice to the one you'd made then.

Han Kang

#81. Knowing you want to do something isn't the same as knowing how to do it, and even knowing how to do something isn't the same as actually doing it well.

Meg Jay

#82. Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

Nicholas Sparks

#83. It's because I'm a 'Limited Edition'. Y'all should be grateful for even knowing me," Meryn huffed.

Alanea Alder

#84. Maybe I was tired and irritable. Maybe I felt a little guilty. I could learn to hate this guy without even knowing him. I could just look at him across the width of a cafeteria and want to kick his teeth in.

Raymond Chandler

#85. One of the poets says somewhere that animals are a different people. I killed them by the ten, by the hundred, thousand, not even knowing what they were called. I destroyed their houses, their secrets. And buried them. Buried them. Leonid

Svetlana Alexievich

#86. Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Mark Pagel

#87. There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a bittersweet yearning for something that was so familiar it hurt. Something he'd lost without even knowing he'd lost it. Something elusive that floated just beyond his grasp.

Alan McCluskey

#88. Anyone that has the power to open up your heart without you even knowing, should terrify you.

Calia Read

#89. In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.

Ayelet Waldman

#90. I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Gayle Forman

#91. We just tend to live our lives without even knowing that there are certain principles that enhance a better passage through life.

Sunday Adelaja

#92. My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Miguel De Unamuno

#93. When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.

Jennifer Harrison

#94. 'What was that?' Wallander said.
[Linda] 'Nothing.'
'That's funny. I could have sworn you were swearing.'
'I didn't say anything.'
'I have a strange daughter,' Wallander said to Lindman. 'She curses without even knowing it.'

Henning Mankell

#95. Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Bryant McGill

#96. Dr. Kennedy talked me out of killing myself
for now
without saying a single words or even knowing what was going on. Which, I've decided, is the mark of a totally kick-ass therapist.

Barry Lyga

#97. But even knowing it, her feelings didn't change. Her skin didn't cool. The fantasy of being tucked in his arms didn't fade. She'd wanted him to kiss her. She still did. She let out a sigh and,

Marissa Meyer

#98. and out to my car, not even knowing where I will go from here. I can't! I can't! I can't stay there! I

Wendy L. Wilson

#99. Your ego is the biggest block you have in being able to listen to and trust your intuition in doing readings or even knowing and familiarizing yourself on a conscious level with your spiritual team.

Lisa Andres

#100. In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object.

Marcel Duchamp