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5402 Known quotes by 3459 unique authors

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers… — Robert Mugabe
And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world… — Don DeLillo
A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be… — Hayden Carruth
I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the… — Liz Phair
You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start… — Norah Jones
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't… — Gorgias
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them. — Frank Herbert
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. — Frank Herbert
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so… — Jefferson Davis
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I… — J D Salinger
It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again, — Jim Leyland
I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that. — Kim Wilde
There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen. — Siouxsie Sioux
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are… — Blaise Pascal
THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of… — Dick Francis
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because… — Samuel Johnson
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which… — Joseph Campbell
I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my… — Darlene Zschech
The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more… — Alexander Pope
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much… — Marie Antoinette
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. — Barry Commoner
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master… — Michael Jackson
Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated… — Stephen King
Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To… — Ayn Rand

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