Known Quotes

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

The God we serve will make His presence known, when you praise

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done.

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.

Ive seen it all, done it all, known it all.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

What footprint do you want to be known for? (It's) the legacy and the journey that you're on. Trust in yourself. Trust in the passion you have (inside) yourself.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.