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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.
— John Knowles
The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.
— John Knowles
I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.
— John Knowles
We are all born equally far from the sun.
— John Knowles
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.
— John Knowles
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
— John Knowles
His jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.
— John Knowles
The war was and is reality for me.
— John Knowles
Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.
— John Knowles
Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.
— John Knowles
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
— John Knowles
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
— John Knowles
Why talk about something you can't do anything about?
— John Knowles
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
— John Knowles
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.
— John Knowles
What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
— John Knowles
The scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse
— John Knowles
I jounced the limb.
— John Knowles
And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.
— John Knowles
Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.
— John Knowles
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.
— John Knowles
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.
— John Knowles
I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.
— John Knowles
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.
— John Knowles
Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.
— John Knowles
Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.
— John Knowles
...moved by his own sermon.
— John Knowles
But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.
— John Knowles
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.
— John Knowles
Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.
— John Knowles
Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?
— John Knowles
There are just tiny fragments of pleasure and luxury in the world, and there is something unpatriotic about enjoying them.
— John Knowles
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.
— John Knowles
