The Person You Thought You Knew Quotes

#1. ...have you ever thought you knew someone--I mean really knew someone--then realized that the person you thought you knew only existed in your overextended mind...

Stephanie Verni

#2. Her nerves stood on end and she knew she was on the brink of falling over the edge with Alexander. And the thought didn't scare her at that moment. Because she knew he was the type of person to catch her, no matter what.

T.K. Leigh

#3. Carry your most cherished dreams close to your heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. The next thing you know, the people you always thought would be there, aren't. And the person you thought you could trust with everything, isn't the person you knew at all.

Rebecca Donovan

#5. I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#6. My world has changed so much. Everything around me has perceptibly shifted in a direction I hadn't seen coming. The people around me, the ones I once thought I knew so well have transformed into strangers. Worst of all, I can't recognize the person I have become.

Cacey Hopper

#7. Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined.

Anita Shreve

#8. When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

Sam Worthington

#9. I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I had ever thought. Some have a harder chance. Some get no chance at all. With great sadness, I saw so many people born in the wrong time to be happy.

Andrew Sean Greer

#10. I always thought that explained it: the romance is a reaction from the algebra. I never knew a person connected with mathematics or astronomy or statistics, or any of those exact things, who didn't have a crazy streak in 'em SOMEwhere.

Booth Tarkington

#11. I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.

Sandra Bullock

#12. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone ...

Arthur Miller

#13. I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.

Emily Yoffe

#14. I had always been a solitary person. Therefore I had a habit of opening my heart to a piece of paper. I thought that was quite secure. I knew that those words would never go out there, except of course if someone read them.

Pet Torres

#15. Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking ... I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

Mark Twain

#16. I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth it - that she'd be better off not living - and how was I supposed to live after that?

Catherine Lacey

#17. A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know.

Jeanne DuPrau

#18. Deborah was the only person on earth who knew what I really was, and even though she was still getting used to the idea, I had thought she understood the very careful boundaries set up by Harry, and understood, too, that I would never cross them.

Jeff Lindsay

#19. There's lots of R&B blogs that I like going on and it basically just names new music that isn't out and won't be out for a long time and stuff. It just gives you an insight on what's coming up next and finding out about new artists.

Cher Lloyd

#20. Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

Conn Iggulden

#21. Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

Michael Strahan

#22. I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

Louise Fletcher

#23. Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

Linda Thompson

#24. Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew.

Sandra Lee Dennis

#25. A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

#26. God it's good to be here walkin together, my friend.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#27. I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

Maud Adams

#28. Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

John M. McHugh

#29. I met Elvis in your woods one night," Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. "I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.

Charlaine Harris

#30. stick together like shit on a shoe.

Carl Hiaasen