Otherwise Known Quotes

#1. Paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition."
Transition is the tension present between struggle and grace.

Deborah Brodie

#2. The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

Ken Wilber

#3. A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...

Caroline Kepnes

#4. Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.

J.L. Bond

#6. This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very seriously. As artists, we work as a collective - all for one and one for all. As servants, we work for thos who venture out alone, otherwise known as performers.

Rebecca Stead

#7. Sometimes, if you're willing to withstand a little pain in life, you might discover a pleasure that you never would have otherwise known existed.

Penelope Ward

#8. American officials held them up for three month until I paid the bribe (otherwise known as "Customs Duty").

Tom Carter

#9. Just as nuclear fuel will always be reactive, people will always be greedy. We need to enforce rules to balance natural greed with capital requirements so that greed can create productive risk taking and competition and not short-term extraction, otherwise known as theft.

Dylan Ratigan

#10. I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience.

Meryl Davis

#11. When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Maggie Gallagher

#12. Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

Justin Raimondo

#13. The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

M.J. Rose

#14. I sat down with little time to prepare for my back being ambushed by the wintry digits otherwise known as Tetra's toes.

G.L. Tomas

#15. That is Nick Colt, otherwise known as bad news.

Carrie Jones

#16. Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable for exactly the opposite reason: You can get your news without a filter.

Michael Specter

#17. Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.

Pablo Neruda

#18. This I have known, and these have come again
With echoing happiness in heart and brain;
Time standing still, surrendering to me
Beauty that otherwise would cease to be.

William Kean Seymour

#19. Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

Peg Kehret

#20. I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

Margaret Thatcher

#21. Knave of hearts and bane to all women, be it known that you must win your tournament for me, otherwise I shall have a most difficult time explaining to my new lord my newest addition.
-A letter to Stryder, from Rowena

Kinley MacGregor

#22. Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

Jack Nicholson

#23. He reminded me of all the golden boys I'd known in my life- classically handsome and charmingly sure of his place at the very top of the heap, confident that the world was his and that he was safe in it, without ever having considered otherwise.

Cheryl Strayed

#24. If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin. But when I made my way in the world I wanted to indulge myself in my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.

George Soros

#25. I'm so sorry. I read of it only yesterday. Otherwise, I would have come sooner.' And what good that reassurance was, he had no idea. I would not have come if her were alive, but I would have come at the very moment of his death, had I known of it. Yes, that must be very comforting to her.

Meredith Duran

#26. [ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.

George Perkins Marsh

#27. The most important thing is not to work on things that other people are working on because otherwise all you'll do is get the same result as everybody else and you won't make any discoveries, you'll just confirm what's already known.

David Jewitt

#28. speak to the condition" of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself. His message must be not only timeless but timely. He must speak to his own generation.

A.W. Tozer

#29. I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#30. Autumn begins, autumn ends; winter begins, winter ends; spring begins, spring ends; summer begins, summer ends! It is good that they end, otherwise how could we have known them? Some things must end so that we can know some other things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. 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

#32. In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.

John Sulston

#33. [...] we can find no true or existent fact, no true assertion, without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise, although most of the time these reasons cannot be known to us.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

#34. I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.

Heidi Julavits

#35. Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#36. I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

Emma Roberts