Known Quotes · Page 73

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

— Billy Graham

In a funny sort of way, the ramshackle bunch known as the Happy Mondays were a lifesaver for me.

— Bez

I want to be known as a delicate, Black dancer who does classical ballet.

— Michaela DePrince

The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

— Walter Pater

I haven't even seen you successfully talk to a woman since I've known you, unless of course, you count Alex Riley.

— Edge

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

— Ricki Lake

It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became…

— Brian Epstein

I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a…

— Susan B. Anthony

I always eat mac and cheese. That's what I'm known for, just very simple food: sandwiches, French fries, very unhealthy, but yeah…

— Bethany Mota

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to…

— Elie Saab

People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our…

— Kellyanne Conway

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind…

— Bernard Baruch

The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track.…

— Bob Proctor

The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls.…

— Joel Davis

Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known…

— Scott McClellan

I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt…

— Misty Copeland

Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God,…

— Nigel Cole

Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known…

— John B. S. Haldane

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom…

— Ambrose Bierce

When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on…

— David Finckel

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

— Leo McKern

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

— Charles Tennyson Turner

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

— Harry Reid

You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Put your trust in Allah and not in anyone other than Him, because it is known that He alone is the Helper.

— Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have…

— Andre Dubus

I have yet to meet two types of people; unknown and those who are known to only unknown.

— Vikrant Parsai

Growing up, I wasn't the best player - Richard Jefferson, whom I've known since I was 14, will gladly vouch for that,…

— Channing Frye

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.

— Joe Wright

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

— James Boswell

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Sometimes the people whom we've known for only a short time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever...

— Anonymous

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for…

— Caroline Norton