The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
There is only one failure in life possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
I love that for Barack there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat a Republican or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
A woman knows by intuition or instinct what is best for herself.
To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Beauty is the still birth of suffering every woman knows that.
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty how many ghastly mortifying missteps how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment how partial all accomplishment is how incomplete?
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian unless the latter too be lovers in disguise.
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week not like the opera where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
As a team you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best ' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church everyone present knows what is going to happen that night but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
In every work of art the subject is primordial whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else even if it only be the art of raising lentils receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.