Top 100 I Have Known Quotes
#1. Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#2. I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.
Brad Paisley
#3. I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
Lance Henriksen
#4. Of silence, I can say only what I have heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave
and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.
Jesse Ball
#5. And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.
Richard Llewellyn
#6. I suppose I might never have known or believed that love could be so strong if I hadn't seen it dragged through this hell. Now I know that love can truly endure anything.
Willow Aster
#7. How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache,
Arthur Conan Doyle
#8. I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.
Philippa Gregory
#9. The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf.
Shirley Jackson
#10. A poet! I should have known you for a poet by how your body moved.
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
Florence Nightingale
#12. You are more capable of being loved than you understand. And - Celeste, this is important - you nurture and love and protect more than anyone I have known. Or could know. Don't take that away from me. From us.
Jessica Park
#13. I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?
Tom Robbins
#14. I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey
#15. I can't compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other ... " She sighs. "It was the most love and the most pain and the most wonder I could have ever known.
Carrie Ryan
#16. Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.
Robin Hobb
#17. I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
Geoffrey Boycott
#18. As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries.
Juliet Asante
#19. If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd known about it before - but this was a pivotal moment in my life. If my father had been found guilty of conspiracy, I wouldn't be here.
Troy Garity
#20. I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.
Brooke Shields
#21. I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.
Gene Lees
#22. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.
Anonymous
#23. As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
Luis Figo
#24. I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
Merle Travis
#25. Deep down you've never changed from what you are."
"And what's that?"
"Alone," said Ash. "Outcast to both worlds, demon and human... I'm not afraid of you. I never have been. You're the best person I've ever known, Parvati. In all my lives.
Sarwat Chadda
#26. All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?
John F. Kennedy
#27. I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.
Richard P. Feynman
#28. I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#29. Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin
#30. I can barely stay awake," Metias had told me after his first night shift. "Does she honestly think we can guard anything after pulling an all-nighter? I was so out of it today that the Colonies' Chancellor himself could've walked into Batalla Hall and I wouldn't have known it.
Marie Lu
#31. asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not - I'd read it first. I don't think I could have stood the suspense if I hadn't known what was going to happen. I'd have been way too worried.
Will Schwalbe
#32. I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.
James Salter
#33. From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.
Shimon Peres
#34. My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.
William S. Burroughs
#35. I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#36. To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style! PLACE-NAMES:
Marcel Proust
#37. Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.
Margaret Atwood
#38. If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.
Ken Hitchcock
#39. Let's talk a little about love. Sometimes you meet somebody and you have what is known as a relationship and things can go great. If things go great you have a great relationship. Sometimes it doesn't go so great and I call that a relationshit!
Dane Cook
#40. I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.
David Guterson
#41. If i had known ... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#42. I have never known this kind of peace. Never known this kind of comfort. And sometimes I am afraid," he says, dropping his eyes, "that my love will terrify you.
Tahereh Mafi
#43. When everything around me is crumbling to pieces, all I have to do is look at you and I can keep going, keep living. You're warm, Quinn. The warmest person I've ever known. I never realized just how devoid of warmth my life was until you came into it.
Katie Jennings
#44. You want to know
whether i believe in ghosts
of course i do not believe in them
if you had known
as many of them as i have
you would not
believe in them either
Don Marquis
#45. You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.
Anthony Horowitz
#46. Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators.
P.G. Wodehouse
#47. - You have never known a Woman's body!
- I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying.
Roland Barthes
#49. If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.
Shaquille O'Neal
#50. I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.
John C. Maxwell
#51. I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.
Sarah Dessen
#52. I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
P.D. James
#53. I came to know Christ when I was 13 years old at a youth camp I attended. I may not have known much about Him, but I knew I was saved by grace and that, because of the cross, I had a hope like no other. I cannot imagine life without Him.
Bart Millard
#54. Messina between the volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, having known the death-agony's terror. I always dread coming near the awful place, yet I have found the people kind, almost feverishly so, as if they knew the awful need for kindness.
D.H. Lawrence
#55. Being of service is something that really makes me happy. Being able to tell young kids about something they might never have known without meeting someone with my experiences is what really what I feel it's all about. I feel that's the only way that you get fulfillment out of life.
Keke Palmer
#56. You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will
Robin Hobb
#57. I could have been known for something terrible.
Sarah Hughes
#58. Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.
Bernard Hopkins
#59. If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.
Megan Hart
#60. I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.
Noel Coward
#61. Imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known - there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, for I will not change
Marquis De Sade
#62. I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care.
Bernie Sanders
#63. In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.
Rokia Traore
#64. It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.
Rachel Nichols
#65. now i am old
older enough to have known the world
and i am sad
Roseville Nidea
#66. Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.
Robert Frost
#67. Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" 6Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.
Anonymous
#68. I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.
Yukio Mishima
#69. Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Lord Chesterfield
#70. Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when I need a break, and when the break starts to get too long. I known how hard I am allowed to push myself.
Haruki Murakami
#71. You're mine, Eden. You always have been, from the very first second I saw you.
I nodded. It seemed like the simplest truth the world had ever known.
Mia Sheridan
#72. I should have known that at the root of any mystery that's all you find: people doing unspeakable harm to other people. What else on this earth is there to hide?
Nick Dybek
#73. Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
Blaise Pascal
#74. Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have
tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.
Leonard Nimoy
#75. Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.
Lewis Black
#76. If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!
Mickey Mantle
#77. The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)
Albert Einstein
#78. It's gotten to the point where I think my friends would rather hang out with their own kids than hang out with me. And I'm like, "Alright, but where's the loyalty, man. I've known you for twenty-five years. How long have you known your baby, like, a month?"
Arj Barker
#79. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because I've known that every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it.
Paulo Coelho
#80. You laugh as hard as you cry. And you give pain as beautifully as you take it. And when you love, you love harder than anyone I have ever known so it's no surprise you hurt this much.
Tiffany Reisz
#81. I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B.C. Forbes
#82. You taught me about everything I had forgotten and things I'd never known. And the only way I can repay you is with my heart. You one hundred percent have my heart. It may not be worth much coming from a troubled man like me, but it's real and it's yours. Ti amo, mia leonessa.
Karina Halle
#83. Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.
Charlie Chaplin
#84. Most androids I've known have more vitality and desire to live than my wife.
Philip K. Dick
#85. I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
Charles Sumner
#86. Loving without judgment or fear of abandonment is. . . . the toughest activity known to mankind and I think with best friend that can be even more pronounced because you aren't my mom, we don't have kids together - but we do have matching tattoos.
Rebecca Traister
#87. I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.
Philippe Petit
#88. I should have known better than to lie to the government. People always said Uncle Sam would spend a thousand dollars to get you if you stole a three-cent stamp from him. He was more revengeful than God. I
Maya Angelou
#89. Oh, this sounds promising. I guess we should have known two control freaks weren't going to get along.
Jamie McGuire
#90. Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.
Agatha Christie
#91. I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.
Jermain Defoe
#92. I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#93. The first time I'd entered the Fold, I'd feared the darkness and my own death. Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew that soon death would seem like a gift. I'd always known I would have to return to the Unsea, but as I looked back, I realized that some part of me had anticipated it.
Leigh Bardugo
#94. If I'd known you were in my future, I would have chosen differently.
Natasha Boyd
#95. My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.
Michael Schumacher
#96. May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.
Marisha Pessl
#97. I have no right to give my opinion," said Wickham, "as to his being agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I have known him too long and too well to be a fair judge. It is impossible for me to be impartial.
Jane Austen
#98. Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.
Pat Conroy
#99. Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.
Gena Showalter
#100. I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .
R.S. Thomas
