Quotes on Knows

The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

It is our very search, our lust for the miraculous and magical, that hides from us the truth that simply to be, simply to know I am, is already the miracle that we seek. Everything, as it is, is perfect, but you must stop seeing it as if in a mirror, as if in a dream.

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.