Known Quotes - page 6

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. (Allen Ginsberg)
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? View quote
William Shakespeare
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. View quote
Mark Twain
What do you despise? By this are you truly known. View quote
Frank Herbert
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. View quote
Avicenna
The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne But tell me, nymphs what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design. View quote
Jef Raskin
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. View quote
Miles Davis
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (Albert Einstein)
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time. View quote
Ervin László
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day. View quote
Mark Haddon
But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state. View quote
Nesta Helen Webster
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative. View quote
Dale T. Mortensen
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. View quote
Albert Ellis
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. View quote
James Henry Breasted
In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others. (Jim Stovall)
Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time. View quote
John Cusack
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man. View quote
Dorothy Dix
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. View quote
Langston Hughes