“He knew the truth and was looking for something better.”

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

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American writer 1908–1981

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

“He knew, better than the cynic, that if you look out over the arc of history, human beings should be filled not with fear but with hope.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Remarks by President Obama at Memorial Service for Former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Israel. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/30/remarks-president-obama-memorial-service-former-israeli-president-shimon (30 September 2016) <br class="br">2016

“Nico and Hazel exchanged looks. They both knew better, but they said nothing.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“He learned this much selling cars: offer the customer something he doesn't want, to make what he half-wants look better.”

John Updike book Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him…. Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!”

Ian Holloway (1963) English association football player and manager

On Cristiano Ronaldo <br class="br"> "Holloway column" , BBC SPORTS(4 april 2008) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7329117.stm <br class="br">Sourced quotes

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“I looked for perfection, and I found something better.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

“He knew that to understand Quality he would have to leave the mythos. That's why he felt that slippage. He knew something was about to happen.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 28
Context: Religion isn't invented by man. Men are invented by religion. Men invent responses to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what they themselves are. You know something and then the Quality stimulus hits and then you try to define the Quality stimulus, but to define it all you've got to work with is what you know. So your definition is made up of what you know. It's an analogue to what you already know. It has to be. It can't be anything else. And the mythos grows this way. By analogies to what is known before. The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues. These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it. The Quality is the track that directs the train. What is outside the train, to either side—that is the terra incognita of the insane. He knew that to understand Quality he would have to leave the mythos. That's why he felt that slippage. He knew something was about to happen.

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Old enough to look as if he knew what to do, young enough to look as if he could do it.”

Steve Perry (1947) American writer

Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 4

“He knew the truth and was looking for something better.”

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