“Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.” LeftGoneKnowingResponsibleShameBurdenNever Quit Book:The Goldfinch Source: The Goldfinch
“The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.” MenMindHumansHas BeensMadeAgeUniverseNextLeftHuman BeingsKnowingMembersAchievementFellowsBlessedHumbleBrilliantPeace Of MindCompellingPreciseOutlookGrandeurDeficiencyVeneration Author:Alain de Botton
“This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.” WritingMayUseHandsLeftKnowingAccountsInferiorsLeft HandKnowing Myself Author:John Milton
“We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.” WorldNightLeftGrowsParentMarriageGrowing UpKnowingClearGrowingShareShipsWho We AreNot Knowing Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“LeBron doesn't have any weaknesses, or he doesn't have a glaring weakness. So you've got to pick up on the smaller things to try to make him uncomfortable. Like knowing which side he likes to shoot threes off the dribble, which side he likes to drive. One side he'll drive left more often, and the other side he'll drive right more often.” TryingLeftSidesKnowingPicksWeaknessLikesUncomfortableChampionshipNba ChampionshipsDribble Author:Andre Iguodala
“2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.” ThinkingMadeSeemsLeftBehindsSituationKnowingFateDyingMaterialsShotsDiedMade ItObsessedTiesSignificanceThreateningLeft Behind Author:Curtis Jackson
“It's funny, people were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie, and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered, knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsEndsLeftFeltStuffKnowingMonthsAskingTwilightBewilderedFunny People Author:Robert Pattinson
“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.” TryingSaidFeelingsArtistLeftKnowingColorSweetTasteLongingPainfulFrustrationCaptureFragileGestures Author:Alan Alda
“Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayMeanLongEnoughFactsDiesLeftLosesKnowingHappenedMysteryThis WorldDisappearNot KnowingSheerAstonishingStarksMean People Author:Sam Harris
“The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.” WorldFirstsHomeGovernmentLeftKnowingNew YorkDemocratNot KnowingMondayParadesColumbusColumbus Day Author:Argus Hamilton
“....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.” KnowsHeartLeftKnowingFeetWalkingGlobes Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays
“We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might be too much. So we said to God 'Please give us a healthy child' and left it at that, not knowing that God is a generous God, but also has a sense of humor. And if you leave that much open for God, some wonderful jokes are going to come about.” IfsGivingChildrenSaidMightAsksLeftKnowingToo MuchWonderfulPleaseHealthyJokesGenerousSpokesSense Of HumorNot KnowingHealthy Children Author:Bill Cosby
“These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.” PeopleKnowsWayKindGovernmentLeftForceFeltBlackCommunityWhiteDestinyKnowingEconomicCenturyEventsIntellectualArroganceNeighborhoodPushingBlack CommunityPushing On Author:Sara Paretsky
“There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!” WantLeftAnswersKnowingGenerationsRight NowSurpriseGoogle Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical presence left the planet. Working consciously with such an in-my-face overwhelmingly painful loss, I was able to process it to the point of accepting that although my relationship with her would be different, I could still sense and celebrate that there was no separation between our spirits. Being present and open to each stage of grief eventually led to her visiting me in my dreams and a tangible sense of her presence.” WayStillsDifferentDreamWould BeAbleFacesSpiritMotherLeftProcessLossGriefAcceptingKnowingStageTearsPlanetsPainfulSeparationPassingPassingsCelebrateTangibleVisitingStages Of Grief Author:Michael Beckwith
“There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?” WorldChildrenCountryKidsLeftSexGrowsCitiesKnowingGenerationsAdultsSlaverySlaveNosesVillageNot KnowingShockingAnother WorldAnother LifeTraffickingKidnappedNepalCities In The WorldShocking Things Author:Gillian Anderson