Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us… — Janet Holmes a Court Copy Share Image
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Empathy provides more than just information about relationships. It is an expression of being in relationship. It is not just a means… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty,… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness… — Ken Marino Copy Share Image
Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Vannevar Bush has said that there is no more thrilling experience for a man than to be able to state that he… — Kenneth Franklin Copy Share Image
Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e.,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Most people have never known solitude… But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Our view is that we would want to see the situation in Ireland resolved, but we do not intervene in that situation… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image