Never Known Quotes

232 Never Known quotes by 202 unique authors

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my… — Jesse Jackson
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. — Claude Levi-Strauss
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known… — Paul McCartney
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. — Ezra Pound
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. — Bertrand Russell
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. — Adam Smith
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths,… — Lewis Thomas
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. — Edith Wharton
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that… — Sinclair Lewis
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in. — Quentin Crisp
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain… — Graham Greene
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts?… — Charles de Lint
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a… — Jane Austen
This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew… — Milan Kundera
All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for… — Denis Johnson
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only… — Jacqueline Carey
The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their… — Rick Riordan
But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me… — Koren Zailckas
It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange… — Robert E. Howard
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most… — David Foster Wallace
Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus] — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to… — Bertrand Russell
Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been… — Laurell K. Hamilton

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