Quotes About Being Known

#1. I'd gotten so used to being known as the girl whose dad died, I sometimes forgot that I'd had a life before that.

Sarah Dessen

#2. I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

Adam Goldberg

#3. The risk of being known is also the decision to be criticized by some.

Donald Miller

#4. If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.

Raheel Farooq

#5. The truth is, we want to be known; we truly do. But we're afraid. If you see the real me, will you run away? Am I even worth being known? Will the real me bore you? Scare you? Repulse you? And so we hide.

Gary L. Thomas

#6. All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Max Weber

#7. We smile at each other and I feel that wonderful sensation of being known by someone.

Jenny Han

#8. I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

Konstantin Rokossovsky

#9. Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Confucius

#10. We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.

RZA

#11. Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Tom DeLonge

#13. Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

Shane Warne

#14. All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known.

Justin Cronin

#15. I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

Robert Plant

#16. So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.

George Santayana

#17. Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

Imogen Stubbs

#18. Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Jerome K. Jerome

#19. I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

Ricki Lake

#20. If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.

Anonymous

#21. Being known is really fun, extremely strange, and not very important. This

Mindy Kaling

#22. Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.

Dean Koontz

#23. Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Nicolas Chamfort

#24. Maybe being known by someone, really being known by someone, wasn't a party trick like ESP. Maybe it was about opening your heart to that person, consciously and on purpose.

Lauren Myracle

#25. There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar.

John Malkovich

#26. ..they were always asking me lots of questions. Questions I didn't want to answer. They wanted to get to know me. Yeah, well, I wasn't interested in being known. I wanted to buy a t-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWNABLE.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#27. I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

Marilyn Monroe

#28. Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Randy Pausch

#29. When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.

Richard Madden

#30. How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it.

Hannah Kent

#31. Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known and loved is God's greatest pleasure.

Rick Warren

#32. What is the way out of shame?
It is the way of humility, not humiliation. It is the way of being known, not exposed.

Edward T. Welch

#33. A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

Confucius

#34. Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.

Jack Nicholson

#35. It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.

Marquis De Sade

#36. Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Richard Bach

#37. Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.

Elie Saab

#38. Like many people who don't easily commit, I think I had a fear of being known; I was not sure there was anybody inside there.

Jacqueline Bisset

#39. I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

Peter Cushing

#40. When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.

Ludivine Sagnier

#41. Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

Jeffrey Kluger

#42. Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

Confucius

#43. One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

Francis Ford Coppola

#44. More than that, I liked being known, and for the first time in my life, I was known by another. I'm not saying I liked what she knew about me, not proud of the bits and pieces, but somehow she was standing inside my skin and yet I didn't experience shame at her reflection.

Charles Martin

#45. O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!

Philip James Bailey

#46. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.

David Jeremiah

#47. Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.

Heraclitus

#48. I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

William Shatner

#49. I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

Christopher Meloni

#50. Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

Chris Tucker

#51. Being known for musicals is a great thing.

Zac Efron

#52. I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

Kathy Griffin

#53. Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

T.E. Lawrence

#54. The toughest part has been getting used to being known. I've always been the guy in the background, being the actual artist is a whole new experience for me!

Ne-Yo

#55. When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

Brenda Shoshanna

#56. The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow.

Swami Vivekananda

#57. Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Mark Twain

#58. As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

John Donne

#59. I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.

Jack Gleeson

#60. The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

Scott K. Edinger

#61. While extroverts commonly feel loneliness when others are absent, introverts can feel most lonely when others are present, because ours is the aching loneliness of not being known or understood.

Adam S. McHugh

#62. What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Lord Byron

#63. I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

Warren Moon

#64. The truth was, Dorian had always been more interested in being known as good than in simply being good

Brent Weeks

#65. All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.

Rose George

#66. You're my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I've loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage. I spent so much time being resentful and lamenting the circumstances of my life, but 'tis true that I wouldn't change a single thing because then I would have never known your love.

Maya Banks

#67. Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

Darrell Issa

#68. I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

Kelly Ripa

#69. 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

#70. Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
toward himself to recover his inner being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#71. It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#72. Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

Rick Astley

#73. These little black circular shapes were a result of him being a carrier of a parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii

Soroosh Shahrivar

#74. You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.

China Mieville

#75. The less you think you know, the more will be known. It's amazing what you can know when you let go of being the knower.

Art Hochberg

#76. I know first-hand the challenges that come with being an on-the-go mom, and I am constantly looking for great products that fit into my busy schedule. I've tried every goop and elixir known to man.

Eva LaRue

#77. What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Nikita Khrushchev

#78. But as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.

Heidi Julavits

#79. With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

Joy Bryant

#80. The first part of emotional healing is being limbically known - having someone with a keen ear catch your melodic essence. (170)

Thomas Lewis

#81. I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Diablo Cody

#82. Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

Bethany Hamilton

#83. I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.

Nell Zink

#84. I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandons you.

Robin Hobb

#85. Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

Sandy Oshiro Rosen

#86. Having seen all of their fathers and husbands walk out the door[...], each woman understood most completely the nature of women's interconnectedness. Being reliant upon only women also had meant that the particulars of problem solving were addressed in ways known to women and using women's methods.

Tracey Lindberg

#87. Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

Oswald Chambers

#88. Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

Ronald Reagan

#89. In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Bryant H. McGill

#90. I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.

Jeremy Irvine

#91. People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

Julian Barnes

#92. Of course I remember you. You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being."
"You've always known?"
"Adam, I'd recognize your eyes anywhere in the world.

Tahereh Mafi

#93. Only if I could be known for being one of the world's greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.

Gloria Gaynor

#94. When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

Carol Burnett

#95. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to be well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen

#96. 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

#97. I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

Tove Styrke

#98. Isn't it funny how sometimes you can instantly connect with people? How, despite being almost strangers, you can feel that you have known someone all your life?

Jane Green

#99. But with you, whenever I'm with you, whenever I'm able to touch you and smell you, hear your voice, your thoughts, I feel like I've never truly known what being blessed was.

S.L. Naeole

#100. 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