Known Quotes · Page 86

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

— Geoffrey Boycott

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

— Eduardo Chillida

Financial inequity for African Americans has been perpetuated by companies that are known to have benefited from the institution of slavery.

— Al N. Green

It is amazing to win an event but to do it with the best standard ever been known in a final is…

— Judd Trump

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

— Harry Browne

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

— Jimmy Carter

One goal I want to accomplish is I want to be known as the hardest-working guy on the team my rookie year.

— Donte DiVincenzo

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known…

— Rudyard Kipling

I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust…

— Jonathan Balcombe

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to…

— Dave Heineman

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning…

— Deepak Chopra

If I am known as a comedian or I get to be known as one, it is because of one of two…

— Rajpal Yadav

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should…

— Jackie Kennedy

The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it…

— Judith Butler

I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I…

— Frank James

This is another area in which savings can also be moved from wasteful - like the F-35 weapons system that will cost…

— Jill Stein

Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent…

— Nathaniel Branden

One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other…

— Fred Reinfeld

Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings I've known? Why me, Lord? What did…

— Johnny Cash

it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things…

— Nalini Singh

Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in…

— Aleksandra Mir

We see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I…

— Shane Claiborne

The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The Lesbian is one of the least known members of our culture. Less is known about her - and less accurately -…

— Sidney Abbott

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

— Mark Twain

My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

— Vincent Cassel

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

— Anais Nin

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers…

— Moliere

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known,…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

If you understand that you known everything about any subjects then you don't know anything.

— Mak_786

I have been known to catastrophise some things when life's not going as I'd hoped or planned.

— Ulrika Jonsson

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and…

— Samuel West

When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

— Z'EV

By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.

— Vladimir Putin

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

— John Mellencamp

Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

— Kirsten Dunst