Known Quotes · Page 83

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

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

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Andre Dubus

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

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— James Boswell

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

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that…

— Maya Angelou

We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to…

— Mike Pence

I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror…

— Peter James

It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would…

— Jacob Bernoulli

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is…

— Dennis Prager

It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it…

— SQuire Rushnell

Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are…

— Edward de Bono

Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I…

— Lauren Bacall

Being compared to that man [Michael Jordan], who has accomplished so much in his lifetime and is known as one of the…

— Michael B. Jordan

Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark…

— Lahiri Mahasaya

Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known…

— Zachary Quinto

Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political…

— Mary Ritter Beard

To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there…

— J. Budziszewski

It's not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact,…

— Mikko Hypponen

I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Joe Wright

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

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

— Wietse Venema

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

— Izaak Walton

I haven't in a long time. But I've been known to. It's nice to know what's going on out there.

— Jon Cryer

I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.

— Josh Billings

I'm the Harvard guy everywhere, every day. There are worse things to be called, worse things to be known by I guess.

— Ryan Fitzpatrick

“I would never have known he existed and neither of us would've ever known a love like ours.”

— Kate Sterritt

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

— Kiefer Sutherland

His problem, is that the other side of Lindsey Graham is that he's known as sort of, I don't know, a moderate,…

— Martin O'Malley

I'm obviously more known for being on television, and that's where most people see me.

— Simon Helberg

I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.

— El-P

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others…

— Alexander Wilson