Known Quotes

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

If Jesus had known that his image would end up on Justin Bieber's calf, he would've never started Christianity.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

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

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.

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

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

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.

I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

I've found that techniques and practices of energy medicine offer healings that are often quicker, safer, and more effective than many better known healing practices.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.

Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.