Top 1200 Known Quotes & Sayings

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

It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer. I'm known for a more crusading or quixotic temperament.

Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

Wal-Mart, we've been known for many years - back to the days of when Sam Walton started the company - we've been known for basics. The basic need of families and people across America. Wal-Mart was known as the place for basics.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.

Remember, if you have not known sadness together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial; your sadness is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface; then you have known only the waves; you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

The world is known by the senses The senses are known by the mind The mind is known by Consciousness And Consciousness is known by itself

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.

When a really new product comes along, it's almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it. The reason is obvious. A well-known name got well-known because it stood for something. It occupies a position in the prospect's mind. A really well-known name sits on the top rung of a sharply defined ladder. The new product, if it's going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It's as simple as that.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for history, it's known for religious stories, it's known a bit for agriculture, but... neither was the Jewish population thinking about export industry, nor the Arab or Palestinian population.

Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.

I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.

I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for.

He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

If I am known as a comedian or I get to be known as one, it is because of one of two reasons - either you have not tried or you have accepted it.

Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.