Quotes About Knew

#1. I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.

Emily Giffin

#2. Women's liberation did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual; the visionary feminists of the late sixties and early seventies knew that women could never find freedom by agreeing to live the lives of unfree men.

Germaine Greer

#3. The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

Ann Brashares

#4. People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

Greg Louganis

#5. Right now, all she knew was that she had the potential to love him greatly and fiercely, and she wanted to do so and nothing else very much and for many years.

Ash Gray

#6. The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#7. You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.

Aphex Twin

#8. Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

Gladys Taber

#9. The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won't go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36.

Charles Bukowski

#10. As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.

Douglas Adams

#11. Men held powerful stations in life, and yet the initiate knew their worldly

Dan Brown

#12. Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

Charles De Lint

#13. She was a woman who knew who she was and how she had gotten there.

Lisa Mangum

#14. Ainsley cleared his throat. "Allow me to apologize for my brother. He's not been himself since he returned home."
"With all due respect, Your Grace, I suspect he's being exactly himself. He's just simply no longer the person you knew before he left.

Lorraine Heath

#15. If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the greatest director I've ever worked with.'

Max Greenfield

#16. I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Zhang Ziyi

#17. Goosnargh, said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.

Douglas Adams

#18. He leaned down and placed his lips on mine and gave me the most delicious kiss of my entire life. I saw fireworks light up the night sky. My heart beat like a drum. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I loved him, and that made this kiss the best of my entire life. This kiss was the real thing.

Shannon McCrimmon

#19. Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.

Cheryl Strayed

#20. Wrath to Butch : I always knew you were a royal; just didn't think it went past the pain-in-the-ass part is all.

J.R. Ward

#21. 2And David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom had been highly exaltedb for the sake of his people Israel.

Anonymous

#22. The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured.

Dalene Matthee

#23. Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.

Mike Weir

#24. I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.

Tess Gerritsen

#25. When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#26. Things had changed between us in a profound way, something I think we both knew. All our fighting and nitpicking seemed so silly now. So did my endless agonizing about whether or not I should be with him. Once a man disposes of a body for you, the moral high ground has been lost.

Joanna Wylde

#27. I guess I have a thing for guys in leather, who knew?

Jen Wylie

#28. Everything he knew was a result of artificial intelligence. Manufactured data and memories. Programmed technology. A created life.

James Dashner

#29. In Two Parts You come and go so easily, your life is as you knew - while mine is split in two. How I envy so the half of me, who lived before love's due, who was yet to know of you.

Lang Leav

#30. Within a week, I knew the subway systems,

Kristan Higgins

#31. I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.

Claudette Colvin

#32. Katherine Johnson knew: once you took the first step, anything was possible.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#33. For the first three months I knew him, I thought Lassie was Rowan Atkinson.

Shawn Spencer

#34. She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) and the rest of him buried somewhere else.

H.D.

#35. My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

Tagg Romney

#36. Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Helen Keller

#37. As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing.

Euzhan Palcy

#38. As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'

Tom Cruise

#39. There was no way of really knowing anything, he knew, not even that there was no way of really knowing anything.

Joseph Heller

#40. [On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

Margot Asquith

#41. I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

Alexander Chee

#42. She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.

Aldous Huxley

#43. I'm very happy at City, very happy since the day I came. I knew that the project was good, and in my head, there is nothing else but Manchester City, so how long I'm going to be at City is just never a question.

Sergio Aguero

#44. When I was nine - before I grew up and became a scientist - I thought I knew everything, or at least I wanted to know everything, and in my mind there was no difference between the two. At

Jodi Picoult

#45. I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

Isabel Allende

#46. If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

James D. Watson

#47. You're worse than those bikers," she spat, her body tense and coiling, ready to attack. "At least they knew they were monsters. You're pathetic! You're a monster who imagines he's something else.

C.J. Roberts

#48. I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.

Jessica Hahn

#49. If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#50. I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.

Stephen Sondheim

#51. And before we begin, I should like one thing noted. I knew you had Secret Pain.

Tessa Dare

#52. He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#53. Said. "I'm just not ready yet." It would take something other than my daily nagging. So one night, a night I knew would be

Elizabeth McCracken

#54. and now he knew what it was like to be on the inside, caught in a web woven from your sickest fears and most traumatic experiences. There was no way to retreat from it, and no way to cut through it,

Stephen King

#55. They always said crazy people never knew they were crazy.

Megan Shepherd

#56. She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.

Linda Hogan

#57. It was so close to his own thoughts - that everything he knew was gone, but that this was here, in its place, this one bright thing.

C.S. Pacat

#58. We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

Jose Rodriguez

#59. There wasn't an official rule book that he knew of, but he was pretty sure a guy didn't bend his best damn friend over the kitchen table.

Shannon Stacey

#60. With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.

Frankie Valli

#61. And in the end,
she left a scar
and I knew that was
how she wanted to
be remembered.

She wanted to leave
her mark in the
world
without getting
her heart too
attached to it.

Robert M. Drake

#62. I knew I was missing out, missing this: the thrum of population, out here, in the street. I sailed by, a white ghost in their midst.

Monique Roffey

#63. Something she knew she did not have the right to ask him about. But she wished - oh, how she
wished - that when he was ready to face his fears, she could be the one to help him.

Julia Quinn

#64. I couldn't comprehend what we were about to face, but I knew it was my birthright to fight for it.

Nicole Gulla

#65. She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#66. On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Patricia Cornwell

#67. But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is.

Lana Del Rey

#68. I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.

Katie McGarry

#69. I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

Romesh Gunesekera

#70. I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Muhammad Ali

#71. If we truly knew what the word love meant ... we would never hurt others or ourselves. Never
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#72. If you only knew the beauty of who you are, would beg for more light to illuminate every corner of yourself

Ross Hostetter

#73. Suddenly Kira knew that although her door was unlocked, she was not really free.

Lois Lowry

#74. Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Margaret Fuller

#75. On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

Hill Harper

#76. Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

Anne Michaels

#77. Dazed, Nick nodded, then looked to Caleb. "I'm such an effing idiot."
"We knew that," he said drily. "We definitely didn't have to throw you into a coma for that little-known nugget.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#78. I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Jonathan Swift

#79. Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Mark Twain

#80. I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Sarah Waters

#81. She wondered whether the queen knew. Rowan did. Aedion did. And Arobynn did. He had understood that with Rowan, she was no longer afraid of him; with Rowan, Arobynn was now utterly unnecessary. Irrelevant.

Sarah J. Maas

#82. He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.

Davis Bunn

#83. Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

Warren Zevon

#84. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy.

Albert Camus

#85. I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

Nathan Englander

#86. I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

Ringo Starr

#87. I knew: the gods turned once, in their madness,
Men into things, not killing humane senses.
You've been turned in to my reminiscences
To make eternal the unearthly sadness.

Anna Akhmatova

#88. Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

Manish Dayal

#89. What we knew is dead, and maybe the greatest part of what we were is dead. What's out there is new and perhaps good, but it's nothing we know.

John Steinbeck

#90. You were sent here to die. You were the one that was not needed, was not wanted, and they sent you here because they knew you would never come back.

Rosamund Hodge

#91. I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

Alex Garland

#92. Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

Jack Kornfield

#93. Even Orlando (who had no conceit of her person) knew it, for she smiled the involuntary smile which women smile when their own beauty, which seems not their own, forms like a drop falling or a fountain rising and confronts them all of a sudden in the glass.

Virginia Woolf

#94. I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

James Lipton

#95. All the things magicians do
Could be done by me and you
Freely, if we only knew.

C.S. Lewis

#96. Nothing was worthless. Not if you knew who needed it. Not if you knew how to salvage it.

Rob Thomas

#97. I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

Justin Hayward

#98. CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid.

David Ignatius

#99. He felt their rings lightly knock together. At that moment it made him want things he knew he couldn't have and shouldn't want, but Zane squeezed Ty's fingers gently anyway.

Madeleine Urban

#100. So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting.

Gloria Miklowitz