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Quotes About Known

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
~ George Eliot
It is important to avoid casting the professional in the role for which he is known. The public should not be burdened with any preconceptions.
~ André Bazin
Let's be real: it's not always the No. 1 contenders who get the title shots. It's who they invest money in and who's kind of a known name. In the lighter weights, just being that I fought seven title fights in a row, I think I'm that guy.
~ Frankie Edgar
I think it's a known fact that Joel and I have always loved Australia since we started coming here 13 or 14 years ago. Everyone knows we love it here. Our only concern is will we wear our welcome out?
~ Benji Madden
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
~ Ben Hecht
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.
~ David Brock
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.
~ Robert Jarvik
Since Japan is little known in football in the world, we want to play good football and make a huge impact so that we can make the world realise the presence of the Japan football team.
~ Shinji Kagawa
In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company.
~ Steve Blank
he'd long ago accepted the fact that berlin more than suspected him. in a way it was his protection; he'd by no means won every roll of the dice. if the enemy killed him, someone else would take his place. the enemy would have to start all over again. he was a known commodity... accept an existing devil.
~ Robert Ludlum
Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all summer to evoke that laugh, just for the delight of hearing it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
That possibility alone made his quandary more difficult. His wife had left for parts unknown, his deputy was wandering in other parts unknown, and the man he was supposed to catch was in yet other parts unknown. In fact, July felt he had reached a point in his life where virtually nothing was known.
~ Larry McMurtry
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
~ William Harvey
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
~ Nikola Tesla
The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.
~ William John Macquorn Rankine
It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We do not lealve the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions, We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The human psyche is a strange creation. We believe that the known is always preferable to the unknown, even if the known sucks.
~ Alan Cohen
His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.
~ Djuna Barnes
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.
~ Donald Kingsbury
To feel so known, so understood. It's such a wonderful feeling...
~ Jenny Han
Only a person who really knew me could give me this gift. To feel so known, so understood. It's such a wonderful feeling, I could cry. It's something I'll keep forever. This moment, and this snow globe.
~ Jenny Han
Of silence, I can say only what I have heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave-and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.
~ Jesse Ball