#knowing

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#impressed #knowing #like #not knowing #olympian

The art of politics is knowing what to do next. ↗

— James P. Cannon

#knowing #next #politics

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#existentialism #imagination #knowing-someone #knowledge #love

It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know. ↗

— W.G. Sebald

#knowing #death

Please do not break your heart over the withering of a dream you once held, that never became yours! After all, the shattered dream could have very well been a nightmare and not a dream at all, you wouldn't really know because you didn't have it yet! Let the sparks fade, let the flame dim and die, you'll never know it wasn't poison. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#divine-providence #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #knowing-when-to-let-go #letting-go

I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years. ↗

— Gary Numan

#could #couple #crying #doctors #fell

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone. ↗

— Renee O'Connor

#anxiety #direct #everyone #film #having

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#dazzling #entire #exciting #exciting things #existence

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#admires #knowing #length #only #things

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive. ↗

— Susan Smith

#getting #hardest #knowing #need #not knowing