Known Quotes

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

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

In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really improves your chess vision.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest...it's about who came, and never left your side.

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.