Known Quotes

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

Boston is known for its innovation.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

Ive known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.

A man is known by the company he owns.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

Laura's [my sister] rooting for her brother. She'd better. She's known him a lot longer than me.

People always known me for rappin'. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like "oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it."

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.

I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

Move from the known to the unknown.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.