Quotes About Known

#1. I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Max Beerbohm

#2. But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Horace Mann

#3. I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit - the ones I had known were mostly white in the center and rock hard. But this was so luscious, so tart I thought it victorious. So - some tomatoes tasted like water, and some tasted like summer lightning.

Stephanie Danler

#4. 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

#5. Was the secret of lasting youth known only to the criminal mind?

Graham Greene

#6. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

Jane Gardam

#7. HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it a crime to be biologically relevant? She

Jodi Picoult

#8. But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.

Claire Legrand

#9. ... so that any time anyone looked up, expecting out of habit to see Shola, they caught his eye, and shared a moment with him, and the hole in the world was known and acknowledged.

Nick Harkaway

#10. Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

Betty Friedan

#12. I wanted to go home to the safety of my bed and to my stuffed animals and to my people I'd known my whole life. I had nothing to say to anybody, and fervently prayed that no one there would have anything to say to me.

Rachel Cohn

#13. This process was also used on beautiful daggers with bifurcated blades, which look ahead to the Old Kingdom forked instruments known as pesesh-kef used in the Opening of the Mouth funerary ceremony.

Ian Shaw

#14. If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.

Ford Madox Ford

#15. But he should have known that on top of hating his guts, I was also a virgin.

L.J. Shen

#16. After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

Gautama Buddha

#17. 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

#18. PSA98.1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. PSA98.2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.

Anonymous

#19. I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!

John Allison

#20. When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.

Brian Hare

#21. Tendulkar must have known from his heart

Rahul Dravid

#22. No language thus restricted to reporting a world fully known in advance can produce mere neutral and objective reports on "the given." Philosophical investigation has not yet provided even a hint of what a language able to do that would be like.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#23. Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent pillows.

Lauren Kate

#24. In a while he would make the necessary notes, describing the only known cure for Vitriol: an awareness of life.

Paulo Coelho

#25. I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking.

Jojo Moyes

#26. The journey pathways are best known by the traveler.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. 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

#28. I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

Cokie Roberts

#29. Life is greater than you have ever known it.

Ernest Holmes

#30. Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

Otis Chandler

#31. I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.

Brett Morgen

#32. 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

#33. Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?

Em Claire

#34. He had not known a world that did not have her in it. Yet now he was going to discover just that.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#35. My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

David Bohm

#36. I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

Kevin Costner

#37. You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.

Trevor Nunn

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them severely about the head and shoulders.

Peter Matthiessen

#41. 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

#42. How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#43. It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,

Jim Leyland

#44. A country is known by the way it treats its animals

Jawaharlal Nehru

#45. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

Evans G. Valens

#46. My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

Justin Timberlake

#47. 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

#48. If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.

Leo McKern

#49. To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

J.G. Holland

#50. Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71

Kahlil Gibran

#51. 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

#52. Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Baron De Montesquieu

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

George Santayana

#56. 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

#57. In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

Kenneth Noland

#58. This puzzling discrepancy prompted the development of the controversial cosmological theory known as the Strong Misanthropic Principle, which asserts that the universe exists in order to screw with us.

Robert Kroese

#59. My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

Caitlin Flanagan

#60. Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

Frederick Lenz

#61. As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.

Michael Foley

#62. There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#63. I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#64. One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.

M.H. Rakib

#65. He remembered the forceful hand that cast him to the earth. He'd fallen like a shooting star, his flesh burning until his wings fell away. Pain was something he had never known before. But even worse than the physical affliction was the knowledge that he would forevermore be denied Heaven.

James Burnham

#66. nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence. Conditions

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#67. The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

Lewis Thomas

#68. The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

Alan Kay

#69. A poet! I should have known you for a poet by how your body moved.

Patrick Rothfuss

#70. As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

Rand Paul

#71. 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.

Anthony Hecht

#72. A flash of anger made her turn back. When had he ever known the kind of vulnerability a woman must suffer, when left on her own to face the world? How could he know that a woman might seek any strategy to render herself ineligible, invisible?

Meredith Duran

#73. She clenched the blanket in her fist, and sighed, and breathed his name, and if she hasn't said it out load, he wouldn't have known what to call himself, because everything was her.

Laura Ruby

#74. There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#75. Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing ...

Julian Fellowes

#76. Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Maurice Strong

#77. Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#78. The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

Fred Savage

#79. It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

Steve Martin

#80. I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

William Sanderson

#81. Your heavenly Father has known you from your mother's womb. Only He really understands you and the things that have fought hard to wound your soul and steal your confidence. He sees you through eyes uncluttered by human hindrances and social sentiment.

Victoria Boyson

#82. My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.

Judah Friedlander

#83. Layla smiled through her tears, "If I'd known that all it would take to get us talking is a romantic getaway to a bombed-out part of Eastern Europe, I would have gotten Kendra to set it up a long time ago."
"Romantic, huh?" He smiled. "I like romantic.

Paige Tyler

#84. There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

Robert Plant

#85. Children are touched by heaven - their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children

Nadia Hashimi

#86. Death should be KNOWN. Known as a difficult mental, physical and emotional process, respected and feared for what it is.

Caitlin Doughty

#87. Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

Kato Kaelin

#88. It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Nadine Gordimer

#89. If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.

Billy Joel

#90. I'd known love before, and it had brought me so much pain that I had retreated behind an impenetrable wall of indifference, freezing out everything, everyone.

Julie Kagawa

#91. If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#92. 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

#93. I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.

John Steinbeck

#94. Jev was certain the words "should've known better" would go somewhere on her tombstone, but at the moment her focus shifted to the dozens of angry pixies honed in on her.

Katherine McIntyre

#95. I was very aware that you were a girl, Ash. I was just scared because the one person in the world who knew every secret I'd ever had also happened to be the most beautiful girl I'd ever known. My feelings for you were scary as Hell.

Abbi Glines

#96. I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Ezra Pound

#97. I've always known I wanted a family.

Charlize Theron

#98. As Jesse talked the sun down, the hours late, Zerelda smiled and dreamed of him as he had been and was and would be. It seemed everything about him was dynamic and masculine and romantic ; he was more vital even in his illness than any man she'd ever known.

Ron Hansen

#99. In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#100. I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

Nico Muhly