Known Quotes

I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as 'conscience'.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

Lord, I am in this world to show Your mercy to others...For my part I will glorify You by making known how good You are to sinners, that Your mercy is boundless.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

I have listened And I have looked With open eyes. I have poured my soul Into the world Seeking the unknown Within the known. And I sing out loud In amazement.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

I just want to be known as the greatest everis that too much to ask?

A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.

We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.

If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.