Top 100 Quotes About Known
#1. On the shelves of her uncle's shop a jar contains the powdered skull of a suicide, a well-known cure for the falling sickness.
Karen Maitland
#2. The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.
Freeman Dyson
#3. Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.
Eleanor Of Aquitaine
#4. Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
Jean Reno
#5. I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us ...
Bernadette Roberts
#6. Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The
Carlo Rovelli
#7. We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.
Pope Benedict XIV
#8. Friends are friends," Brightspot said, "whether I've known them for a long time or a short time.
Janet Kagan
#9. ... the guy owns half the known universe. I hardly think he'd be all warm and fuzzy. More like dark and dangerous.
J. Kenner
#10. I'm not in love with him. I would never call it that. It's more of a growing fascination with him. He's unlike anyone I've ever known, but he's maladjusted and broken - unpredictable and frightening.
Amy A. Bartol
#11. Many treatments have turned out over the years to be no better than placebos, and placebos, we have learned, are now known to be one of the strongest anomalies of the mind.
David McRaney
#12. Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.
John Berendt
#13. They lacked something that could have been given to them if we'd only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world.
Malcolm Gladwell
#14. I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
#15. There cannot be a law-abiding society if no one knows in advance what law they are to abide by, but must wait for judges to create ex post facto legal rulings based on "evolving standards" rather than known rules.
Thomas Sowell
#16. It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
V.S. Pritchett
#17. Had I known that these legs were to carry a Lord Chancellor, I would have taken better care of them when I was a lad. Duke of Grafton
Barbara W. Tuchman
#18. There's been someone up here screaming 'Landslide' for the whole show ... Normally we don't play 'Landslide,' but on occasion we've been known to play it ... So since this person's been screaming it all show long ... That just about kills the chances of me playing it tonight, or ever again.
Billy Corgan
#19. It is known that the taste
whatever it is
is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.
Edmund Burke
#20. You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
Mary Leakey
#22. I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like sand at all. I don't enjoy all that sunshine and heat without the benefit of climate control.
Roxane Gay
#24. When I lost you ... my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you ...
Tracey-anne McCartney
#25. I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
William Gibson
#26. You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
Rick Santelli
#27. The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.
Elliott Abrams
#28. Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
Tom Parker Bowles
#29. To know that I was known by a new living being, who had not existed until she was made in my body by my desire and brought forth into the world by my pain and strength - that changed me. My heart, which seemed to have had only loss and grief in it before, now had joy in it also.
Wendell Berry
#30. If you keep acting like a big baby, I will shoot you. I've never known a man so in love with his hair before. "
"I'm in love with all of me. I'm a very lovable pervert."
"Well, you're going to be a very sexy pervert when I'm done with you. Now hold still.
Tiffany Reisz
#31. I should have known someone like Caleb Drake stands over what he owns, teeth bared, not allowing anyone to touch it.
Tarryn Fisher
#32. Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham.
Robert Kurson
#33. Just because you came from shit doesn't mean you're shit. You're so much better than what you've known and I bet you'll be a fucking awesome mom
Bijou Hunter
#34. If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.
Edwin D. Ferretti III
#35. Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.
Orhan Pamuk
#36. I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.
Yoshi Wada
#37. and that she had shown marked abilities in that direction, so that many people began to say that she was no better than a Jew. It was not that she lent money on interest, but it was known, for instance, that
Anton Chekhov
#38. I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
Joan Armatrading
#39. I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world.
W. Somerset Maugham
#40. But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.
Mario Chalmers
#43. It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
William Penn
#44. The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#45. Who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16
Beth Moore
#46. I couldn't help smiling as he grasped my arms and held me in place because his warmth infected me. I hadn't known I was freezing until he held me. I hadn't known until then, after the long hours of separation, that with Cain I could pretend to be human.
Jennifer Silverwood
#47. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
Samuel Johnson
#48. I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.
Rufus Sewell
#49. I'm all for Hillary Clinton. I want her to avoid the barbs of women who hate women who work. But I'm known as a Republican in Washington. I'm probably the last person she'd call.
Letitia Baldrige
#50. The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process, all to the good.
Edgar Berman
#51. The strain of Christian service can result in sickness ... I have known Christian workers who have risked their lives and health in serving the Lord.
Billy Graham
#52. There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love ... if it hurts this much.
Chitose Yagami
#53. I wanted to be wanted. And for the past dozen years I've known firsthand what it's like to be sought after. It's funny how when you get what you've always longed for, sometimes the reason you wanted it no longer exists.
Susan Meissner
#54. When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love. All that was true love in them was, even on earth, far more His than ours, and ours only because His.
C.S. Lewis
#55. He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well.
Ken Grimwood
#56. I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
E.W. Howe
#57. I agree. However, this one appears to belong to a rare species known as the barrier pigeon.
D.A. Bonds
#58. Truly transformational knowledge is always personal, never merely objective. It involves knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it is always relational. It grows out of a relationship to the object that is known - whether this is God or one's self.
David G. Benner
#59. Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
#60. A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#61. We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.
Francoise Sagan
#62. Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Robert Heinecken
#63. God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#64. He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
Barry Humphries
#65. You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
Boyd K. Packer
#66. A colleague of hers had discovered that the Biblical sentence found in John 4:7 contained all the sounds in nearly every known language.
Katherine Paterson
#67. We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda
#68. Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
Patty Griffin
#69. What we had was real. I felt like I'd been waiting my entire adult life to feel that way about another person when in reality I was. I was waiting for Radek and hadn't even known it.
Michelle Dare
#70. And-he was ashamed to admit
he had been known to carry off the occasional roll of duct tape. That stuff could be used for everything.
Sharon Ashwood
#71. He thought: so this is what it feels like to love. No logic to it - he barely knew her. But there it was just the same. He'd just met the woman he'd known, somehow, since before he was born. The measure of every dream he'd never dared indulge.
Dennis Lehane
#72. Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#73. The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.
Woodrow Wilson
#74. O take me from the busy crowd,
I cannot bear the noise!
For Nature's voice is never loud;
I seek for quiet joys.
The book I love is everywhere,
And not in idle words;
The book I love is known to all,
And better lore affords.
John Clare
#76. The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.
Donna Lynn Hope
#77. Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself ...
Alexandre Dumas
#78. Hadn't I known from the start he was perfect? But I hadn't known I was perfect too, just as I was. Perfect for him, anyway.
Annabel Joseph
#79. Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
Charles Dickens
#80. You are my dream, Miracle, and i love you more than anyone I've ever known. I'll spend the rest of my life loving you. Forever. But right now, let's start with tonight. Let me love you tonight.
M. Leighton
#81. Now may every living thing, young or old,
weak or strong, living near or far, known or
unknown, living or departed or yet unborn,
may every living thing be full of bliss.
Anonymous
#82. If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.
Jaime Murray
#83. God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
John Piper
#84. One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess
#85. In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.
Chang-rae Lee
#86. We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?
John Steinbeck
#87. Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.
Steven Magee
#88. I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.
Roxane Gay
#89. And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#90. We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.
Betty Williams
#91. You shall be known among us as Usul, the base of the pillar. This is your secret name, your troop name. We of Sietch
Frank Herbert
#92. I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.
Judith Butler
#93. To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.
Anuj
#94. It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.
Gerry Beckley
#95. When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
Trisha Yearwood
#96. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
#97. Your path will diverge for a while, but do not let that worry you. You have known difficulty before, but you will survive and thrive.
Joanne Guidoccio
#98. Yes, she wanted to make us undone that night, when we were young, innocent, trusting, having known only the sweetest part of living. She wanted to wither our souls and shrivel us small and dry, perhaps never to feel pride again.
But she didn't know us.
V.C. Andrews
#99. The silence wasn't
like the ones I'd known
lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different
feel to quiet when you're
with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference
between a pause and an
ending.
Sarah Dessen
#100. For a long time, Conor had known his father and Liam followed a stricter-than-average code, that their hate shone a little brighter than most, but until today, he'd never seen so clearly what fools they were and how blinded they'd become in their intolerance.
Katherine McIntyre
