Known Quotes

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.

Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean.

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

That’s what faith is, right?’ he says. ‘Believing in what can’t be known? Fall into my arms, Dori. I’ll catch you, every time, and I won’t let go.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.