Known Quotes

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.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

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

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

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

Put your trust in Allah and not in anyone other than Him, because it is known that He alone is the Helper.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

I haven't even seen you successfully talk to a woman since I've known you, unless of course, you count Alex Riley.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.