John Knowles Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Knowles
John Knowles Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.
The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
His jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
You can do more! A lot more. If you want a ... record you can be proud of, you'll do a heck of a lot more than just what you have to.
What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.
I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.
I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart.
What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.
Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.
Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.
But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.
I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.
I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.
Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?
There are just tiny fragments of pleasure and luxury in the world, and there is something unpatriotic about enjoying them.
So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.
You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.