Known Quotes

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

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

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

I don't want to become known as just a body.

Look - guys are dogs. Women have known this since the beginning of time. Guys don't want to be chased; they chase. So if you're going to catch one, you have to know how to make him chase you.

It's well known that I play aggressively. When I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.