Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“I may say it of our preposterous use of books,—He knew not what to do, and so he read.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“she bit the towel and called on God
and I saw her life stretch out . . .
I saw her torn in childbirth,
and I saw her, at that moment,
in her own death and I knew that she
knew.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)