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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Virgil

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.

Charles Dickens

It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

Stephen Hawking

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Louis Pasteur

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

Carol Burnett

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

Douglas Adams

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Walt Disney

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Confucius

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Matthew Arnold

The price action was incredible. A move like that leads me to believe that something is circulating. Something is known.

John Atkinson

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Blaise Pascal

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Blaise Pascal

I'm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Albert Einstein

It's long been known substance abuse has a significant correlation with abuse and neglect.

Terri Jacobs

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.

Albert Einstein

Everyone who knew them was truly blessed to have known them. We paid tribute to their lives.

Rabbi Shawn Zell

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Joan Crawford

It was still dark out. Good thing I heard rumors they might be doing it or I wouldn't have known who was out there walking around in the dark.

Gene Mancini Jr

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Agnes Martin

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Joseph Conrad

He was well known as a jolly and caring fellow.

Dale Goodwin

Microsoft is well known for its bench strength,? he said.

John Connors

He does not look good, but he is fighting. He is a fighter, I have always known that. I did get a shock, the man's not looking good.

Denis Law

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

Charles Sumner

[Colon] should have known the limits. That's why he is a police officer.

Leticia Valle

The current situation is that 80 per cent of the gap payments are known at the time of surgery.

Mukesh Haikerwal

Had I known that, it would have added fire to my indignation.

Kathy Collins

I've known Ramon since we were in Oakland together after I signed with the A's.

Miguel Olivo

Not enough is known about these drugs.

Dr. Tom Jefferson

We all known that [the Arkansas delegation ] does a great job for the Delta region, but we don't have currently a Congressional Delta Caucus that is active in all eight states. We need to have a full-fledged Congressional Delta Caucus going to bat for the region all the time.

Lee Powell

We believe the murderer was known to her.

Manish Agarwal

I think it will be fun. We've known all those guys since we were sophomores.

Casey Riddle

He is one of the more venerated artists. He is very well known in the hip-hop steam.

Andrew Harding

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Charles Evans Hughes

They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC.

Arnold Amber

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Friedrich August Hayek

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

Rufus King

It's clear that Virgil has lost his way and should have known better than accepting nearly $80,000 in the contributions.

Bern Ewert

It should be known that the story (of a breakup) is 100 per cent false.

Paul Bloch

He was a catcher who couldn't hit. He was best known for his arm.

Paul Snyder

I've known since last year I was going to run. It was just a matter of who was going to be running with me.

Chad Caldwell

It's not known, to the best of my understanding.

Lawrence Dirita

The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance. It's know'n so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings

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

Fisher Ames

I think we have all known that we were having growth in the Hispanic population. We have known it through the school population. I didn't realize it was that high.

Gloria Whisenhunt

We hired well-known NFL agent Reggie Blackwell for the business in January.

Pat Schaumann

This will be the biggest attack on bad housing conditions that this part of south London has ever known.

Walter Allen

In the US, they weren't as well-known as people might imagine.

Jim Tharp

Not every lion is killing sheep. We're trying to focus on known kills and trying to remove that lion that is killing sheep.

Jim Devos

We definitely know that the bomber blew himself up, but what needs to be known is that whether he was alone or not. There are three bodies and a body-less head which are still to be identified.

Niaz Siddiqui

We're not known for our dancing. At first it was difficult, we didn't know if we could handle it, but now it's amazing.

Nick Rodriguez

I tried to braced myself for this, it's just I have known so much disappointment, ... I don't know what happens from here. It's up to God. It's in God's hands now. It is just hard for me to deal with right now, as you can see.

Todd Williams

Hays, Kansas is quite well known for the number of Germans from Russia that reside here.

Leona Pfeifer

He hasn't thrown the ball exceptionally well in the last two weeks, but he's thrown the ball well at times. And we've known since Day 1 that it's the consistency we've got to find with him.

Gary Kubiak

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

It turned out not to be such a bad name, especially on the football field, ... You kind of want to be known as the goon on the football field.

Nehemiah Ingram

I tell my athletes you have to make your own luck. I was a hard worker. I was known as a hard worker and I fell short.

Ryan Shimabukuro

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Malcolm S. Forbes

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

Jef Raskin

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

Ring Lardner

We've known for quite a while, and we've added staff.

Mel Willey

He has known this girl for some time, and there was never any misrepresentation on his part, and there certainly was no extortion.

Page Pate

The only thing I can say about Andrew was that he had a completely defeatist attitude, more than anyone that I've ever known.

Phillip Russell

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

It wasn't good. It's obviously one of the risks you take playing in these games. For him to have an injury that something because I've never known him to get hurt.

Brian Goorjian

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Dorothy Day

I've known him for years, ... We hunt together. He's become a very close personal friend.

Mark Sanford

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

David Mallet

The 46 deaths that have been reported are only those that are known publicly.

Joan Claybrook

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Demosthenes

Had the company somehow survived, the share dealing by Mr Hall may never have become known. The dealings became known because of the collapse.

David Kirby

Why would pediatricians now want to continue injecting children with a known nerve poison?

Alan Clark

I drink because she nags, he said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

Ogden Nash

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Charles de Montesquieu

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Amy Bloom

I'd rather be known as the guy that won a tournament than the guy that played with Annika. It doesn't bother me, but I guess I have to do something. I have to win.

Dean Wilson

I said, 'I don't know. I'll go to the library and look it up.' If I would have known I'd end up at the Supreme Court, I probably would have said no.

Sarah Weddington

We've known that condos were coming to Orlando. There has been a tease for a long time.

Joe Lopez

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

Colin Baker

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Fay Weldon

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

Grenville Kleiser

It wasn't my time, but had I died, I wouldn't have known about it.

Norm Mansfield

I've known Bob for years. I've known Mark for years. We get along now.

Pat Phillips

They started out with the best intentions, but they didn't want to be known as a poor town.

Lisa Roberts

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

Noah Webster

While it has barely been two weeks [since the count], my day-to-day life has not changed. But [the alumni association] is definitely considering a project in Collin County to do something to alleviate the issue. What it is, I don't know. But I never would have known about it if I didn't go on this count.

Barry Williams

Not everyone who goes into those stores are bad people. In fact, the majority aren't. But pedophiles are known to frequent those areas.

Terry Parish

It's just pure science, no applied science. There's no practical application. It's just finding out something that wasn't known before.

Anna Hoppe

They have both had great careers and are known for being very honest. They made the right decision in not being legal advisers because they felt there was conflict of interest.

Jerry Sanders

Locust Valley was always known as the team that you could just come in and beat, like it was automatic. It's been different.

Ashley Lewis

We are confident in running hotels without (brand) flags but we believe as Daytona Beach is evolving, it is important for the public to see the city endorsed by well-known brands.

Doug Kosarek

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Miles Davis

I've been known to take a good student over a good actor.

Melanie Kassen

Ever since I've known her she's been that way. It's probably the way she was raised by her parents. It's helped her to be a really good leader.

Sue Adams

I don?t think anybody ever had a bad word to say about Ben. When you needed a friend, he was there. He was a friend to everyone. He was well-known in the community.

Hal Honig

I've never known anyone with as much capacity to remember, care about and minister to other people.

Forrest Bell

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Harold Pinter

There hasn't been a clear incentive for them to put processes into place to make sure these treatments are given consistently. We haven't known what's been going on in hospitals, until now.

Ashish K. Jha

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

Morgan Freeman

Rebecca finds a way to score. She has always been known as a shooter, but she's improved so much, and now she finds ways to score.

Steve Helton

I have known him for 65 years. It has been a very rewarding experience because he has expanded my horizons.

Janice Biggers

If he hadn't said anything to me, I wouldn't even had known because he got up right away and continued to play. No one even knew.

John Walker

It has long been known from Asia that cats can be infected if they eat infected birds.

Thomas Mettenleiter

[Tommy Johnson, who has known Jimmy for 13 years, pegged him as a] good business man, honest, hardworking. I've done business with him before, ... He's one of the kind of guys you like to deal with.

Tommy Johnson

Spartans were known for never retreating. It was better to die on the battle field than to retreat.

Ron Pike

It is well-known that the owner of the land has refused to allow landings there.

Ryutaro Hashimoto

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known.

James Tobin

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor - unassisted.

Wilson Mizner

The IT industry is not known for the best management practices, and increased competition means working to deadlines.

Cary Cooper

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Sinclair Lewis

He's always been low-key. I can hardly get a couple of words out of him, and I've known him for nine years. Nothing really gets him too high, nothing gets him too low. He has a great attitude for the game.

Chris Riley

That's something the architect should have known. Someone was negligent in not seeing that it was done properly in the first place.

Bernie Turner

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Raul Garcia

I doubt that the name of the brand will be Hachette. Hachette is so French. It's not well known in the U.S.

Arnaud Nourry

We're known typically as a follower.

David Elshoff

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Patrick Kavanagh

We are much better known in Great Britain than in France.

Francois Feuite

It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.

Jim Sheridan

But just as importantly I would say to you as a friend he's one of the nicest, most decent human beings I've ever known.

Doug Miller

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

I could see the guys up front beating and banging on each other, ... So I kept to the inside, that was the only way I had to go. If I'd known they were going four wide, maybe I wouldn't have tried it, but I had to go low to get by.

Quintiliano

I've been here 16 years so I've known him most of his life. Every year I see him in the gym and the first place I ever saw him was in a gym. He is always in a gym and always has been.

Jay Melton

I think it'll be a challenge for all the providers to accommodate the level of demand that we may see, and a lot of that demand is not known yet.

Michael Baird

The functioning of this clock was probably known to a very small group of people.

Harald Meller

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as ''Call Me God'') to KCMG (''Kindly Call Me God'') to GCMG (''God Calls Me God'').

Anthony Sampson

We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Claude Bernard

The reasons are confidential and are best known to the minister.

Alfred Mutua

The wise man has his foibles, as well as the fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself and concealed from the world; and the foibles of the other are known to the world and concealed from himself.

John Mason Brown

It's the archetypal killing machine for dinosaurs. It's been known for a century and all of us - whether you're 80, 40, 20 or 5 - you grew up with T. rex.

Spencer Lucas

Harry was a truly independent spirit and one of the funniest people I've ever known.

Roly Keating

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Louis Nizer

Some well-known commentators on Fed policy have come out and said that the Fed has finished, the Fed is on pause or the Fed should take a pause.

Richard Franulovich

I've known pastures where farmers have lost winter feed because of hay fires.

Sam Knipp

Everybody knew or could have known what they were talking about as far back as 2001.

Mike Gronstal

Homeowners must make their wishes known at City Hall or they will face the same crime problems business owners are now facing.

Chris Russell

He is still the same quiet, humble man I have known for all these years.

Andile Bentele

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

H. L. Mencken

The goal is to understand the mechanisms of epilepsy, which are not known, and create better treatments for this terrible disorder.

Brian Ross

The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He'll now be known as the Lord of the Flies.

Ronnie Barker

When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known.

Chuck Alexander

Shooting my scenes, I hadn't really even known what I was putting in his medicine.

Roger Bart

We've known about this idea for some time, but it has yet to be developed.

Rodney Moore

We didn't capitalize on rebounds. Their goalie had several saves that were just by instinct because there was no way he could have known where the puck was.

Darin Hickey

I am only analyzing and repeating the known Palestinian positions.

Nabil Amr

In some cases, we've literally known each other all our lives.

Colleen Brown

We're not known for our humor.

Tim Smith

Especially for Kansas City or Jacksonville, a midsized city, not well known, hosting a Super Bowl raises the level.

Jerry Mallot

Tennessee is on the rise. It's been known for football, but basketball is also very good. I think we set the bar really high.

Brandan Wright

Columbus is known for their aggressiveness on their press. Our girls weren't expecting it to be that aggressive. It caused us some problems early on.

Skip Laper

I have known Cathy for 19 years and can best describe her as someone with a philanthropic heart.

Wayne Jamieson

We know there are teams out there who have many more of those kinds of players. As soon as I get off the bus, I've known that, and I don't care who I play.

Frank Vrablic

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Richard Armour

I am getting behind on probation fees and child support bills. It's stressful. If I would have known then what I know now … .

Shawanna Reid

I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

Democratic Govjim Doyle

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Otto von Bismarck

Bill was well known and respected by the (Shamokin) community. We expect Bill's show to be a very popular and well-attended exhibit.

Sandra Davis

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did.

Rick Springfield

Our travels to Amsterdam and London were full of discovery with highlights being our time in Amsterdam and tours of buildings both known and discovered by chance in the two cities.

John Wardle

There was no foresight on my part. But if you had walked in on that day, you would have known immediately something was going on.

Ben Younger

We knew that wasn't our team in the first half. We've been known for going out and competing and that was something that we weren't doing in the first half.

Jumaine Jones

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

George Borrow

For the One Platinum, we wanted to find a way to add more distance to a ball known for spin control and feel around the greens. With the One Black, we wanted to take a ball already known for distance and add more spin control and feel.

Rock Ishii

Michael's a good guy. I've known him since he was a teenager. He's been around the brothel industry for a long time.

George Flint

Around comics, I've always been known for, oh, that's not dirty, this is dirty.

Bob Saget

He's very well known and I guess it just touches people's heart knowing that a good kid like that, his life changed from one day to another.

Dalia Salinas

Pagliuca is known for his caring manner.

Rich Copp

I've known (Candace) for 3-4 years, since junior college. She's my roommate and my best friend and I enjoy playing with her again.

Larvisha West

All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become somewhat of a recluse. A lot of his baseball friends had tried to get him out of the house. It's just a sad commentary on the effects of chronic depression.

Dave Van Horne

We've always known it was going to happen. It's a steel mill. There's just inherent hazards to it. That's why a steel worker gets paid what a steel worker gets paid.

Bob Hauser

She was never known as a feminist. She would never admit to it, but I think deep down she was. She felt anything a man could do, she could do.

Wilda Smith

Irish Fest is known at home in Ireland as one of the biggest and most popular celebrations of Irish culture anywhere in the world.

Mary Mcaleese

If we'd have been sitting in he office, we'd have never known that they went down. I'm just glad we were working where we were.

Michelle Reinig

If I'd have known he was going to do that, hell, I'd have let him go. But he was in a lot of trouble, and he had to give it a whirl.

Jack Sanders

What about this question of advanced knowledge of what was going to happen on September 11? How clear are investigators that some Israeli agents may have known something?

Brit Hume

The client had been a well-known charity in the country and really declined in the past 10 years. They have a declining donor file, and there is a decrease in the amount of the average gift.

Tim Campbell

There's several known providers. We'll probably send them to everybody who is interested.

Brett Lago

We grow each year. It's obvious. We attract more people. We're becoming well-known through the area.

Carol Pierce

I suppose, I'll now be known as Charley's Aunt.

Princess Margaret

There's still things that are not known and things he isn't willing to talk about.

Linda Divis

This is the end of my career. I want to be known as a good player.

Dawn Chriss

She's rooting for her brother. She better. She's known him a lot longer than me.

A.j. Hawk

He is running with a crowd of what we believe are extremely dangerous known terrorists.

Peter Ahearn

My neighbor hired someone to paint his front door. He's known throughout the country in his field, but it's not painting.

Lisa Hegland

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Henry James

We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is not the Ivory Coast that we know.

Alpha Oumar Konare

She was the sweetest, most caring person I've ever known.

Mark Hammond

There is no other action contemplated at this time until the outcome of the allegations is known.

Alan Feldman

I don't think this is a material change, but anyone following consensus forecasts would have already known Carter's expectations were on the high side.

Dennis Lee

I am reviewing this file. I haven't got anything definitive to say about it yet, but certainly, I have some previous views that are well known.

Tony Clement

We've known for about four weeks. (If) we win, great. (If) we lose, we lose to an awesome team.

Tod Martin