Top 100 To Be Known Quotes
#1. Am I going to be known by the car I travel in or by the path I pave and walk on?
Amit Abraham
#2. I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap. I'm just a background guy.
Fetty Wap
#3. We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.
Peter Cosgrove
#4. I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
Princess Margaret
#5. I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
Misty May-Treanor
#6. Chirp of coward shouted in crowd,
dare to speak but not to be known.
Toba Beta
#7. I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.
Idris Elba
#8. If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.
Marla Runyan
#9. Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.
Joel Bakan
#10. The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
John Ortberg
#12. We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.
Blaise Pascal
#13. Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
Bruce Forsyth
#14. Without bravery, we will never be able to realize the vaulting scope of our own capacities. Without bravery, we will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, our lives will remain small - far smaller than we probably want our lives to be.
Jack Gilbert
#15. It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.
Albert Brooks
#16. Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance ...
Freya Stark
#17. You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.
Rick Scott
#18. I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
David Byrne
#19. I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.
Alicia Silverstone
#20. Your purpose ... should always be to know ... the whole that was intended to be known.
Maimonides
#21. I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.
Charlie Sheen
#22. I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.
Judy Gold
#23. We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.
Michel De Montaigne
#24. I am a story as well as a happening, and I want my story to be known,
Michael Morpurgo
#25. We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
Penn Jillette
#26. Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know - that is curiosity. To know, to be known - that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know - that is gospel duty.
Matthew Mead
#27. Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
Robert Macfarlane
#28. I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.
Chanel Iman
#29. It's a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly.
Timothy F. Cahill
#30. Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.
Julian Fellowes
#31. Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.
Jess Weixler
#32. If you are looking to build a new culture or transform the one you have, the first questions you should ask yourself are, "What do we stand for?" and "What do we want to be known for?
Jon Gordon
#33. Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is ... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell ... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.
Adam Leipzig
#34. I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.
Michael Schumacher
#35. Through words we come to know the other person
and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.
Harriet Lerner
#36. Earthly things must be known to be loved; heavenly things must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal
#37. Sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.
Matt Ridley
#38. I want to be something special. I want to be known as a great female basketballer.
Lauren Jackson
#39. Being in love is ... anxious," he said. "Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is ... you're naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all ... I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her
Audrey Niffenegger
#40. How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.
John Dryden
#41. I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
Sam Elliott
#42. I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'
Shaquille O'Neal
#43. And He knew him, imagine, To be known, spoken of, By the creator of everything That rule from above.
Brian M. Boyce
#44. Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#45. O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare
#47. I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.
Ed Sheeran
#48. I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.
Diane Nelson
#49. I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?
Tony Campolo
#50. To stand out is to be known for something outstanding
Sunday Adelaja
#51. I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.
Casey Affleck
#52. I tend to be known for different things. I mean, there are a lot of comics or sci-fi fans out there who sort of think of me doing that kind of work, but there are just as many people who like the CD covers I've done, or the children's books I've done. So different people like different things.
Dave McKean
#53. From this point of view the hero is symbolical of that divine creative and redemptive image which is hidden within us all, only waiting to be known and rendered into life.
Joseph Campbell
#54. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seeing them all come true. You were meant for something more. Even if you could be known the world over, what does it matter if you have no time to be known by God?
Kevin DeYoung
#55. I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.
Shannon Elizabeth
#56. She was old enough to be stately, yet young enough to be known for her remarkable beauty. In short, she was the type of woman Sarene would normally hate - if she weren't also the kindest, most intelligent woman in the court. After
Brandon Sanderson
#57. If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.
Neill Blomkamp
#58. You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
Cameron Diaz
#59. Everybody likes to be known. Heck, its why people roll their car window down when their favorite song comes on. They're telling everybody, 'Hey, hear this? This is me.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#60. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
Kristin Hannah
#61. I'm not into clubbing. I want to be known for my work.
Ashley Tisdale
#62. Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.
Carl Rogers
#63. To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
Michael Dorris
#64. I'm not an expert," said Cletus. "I'm a scholar. There's a difference. An expert's a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar's someone who knows all there is that's available to be known about it.
Gordon R. Dickson
#66. If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.
Loren Cunningham
#67. The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
Chuck Barris
#68. We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
Elias Hicks
#69. Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.
Peggy Fleming
#70. We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.
Malala Yousafzai
#71. Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life ... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me ... I want to share.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#72. I'd like to be known for my character.
Soundarya
#73. I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
Paris Hilton
#74. I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.
Gabriel Iglesias
#75. As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
William Harvey
#77. It's fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there.
Kathryn Minshew
#78. The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. To be known, really known, is the essence of love.
Suzanne Hayes
#80. If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.
Jonas Armstrong
#81. The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
Robert Boyle
#82. The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#83. I always want to be known as a good Test cricketer. I believe I have the ability to score big runs in the longer format. For that, I know I have to score heavily in whatever opportunities I get.
Suresh Raina
#84. It wasn't that she expected to be known by all the bank's employees; it was just that she had been lovely once, and had never really believed that time would make her faceless.
Denis Johnson
#85. As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.
Richard Dawkins
#86. The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.
(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)
A.E. Housman
#87. If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.
Gary Thomas
#88. We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
Tertullian
#90. I don't want to be known for winning the game, I want to be remembered for how I played it." Abbie St. Claire
Abbie St. Claire
#91. John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.
John Le Mesurier
#92. All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear.
To be known.
Charles Martin
#93. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.
Benjamin Rosenbaum
#94. Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.
Tom Seaver
#95. Only this much needs to be known: If you separate 'I' and 'my', you will have known all the scriptures! Then the whole universe will be known to you!
Dada Bhagwan
#96. The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
Sarah Fielding
#97. I am kind and beautiful. I have a soul.It's better to be known for what I am not. Isn't that how the saying goes?
Rebecca Berto
#98. There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a discovery.
Tom Robbins
#99. What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
Lysander Spooner
#100. God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.
John Ortberg Jr.
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