Known Quotes

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

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

I've always known I was adopted.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

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

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.

I'd like to be known for my character.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.