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'Wei' means 'future' and also 'uncertainty,' and the future really is unknown. They have said I cannot leave China because they are still investigating cases against me - for pornography, exchanging foreign currency and bigamy. It is very, very strange. I am not a criminal. They grabbed something from me because they have power.

There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Design is an unknown.

The unknown is very scary.

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

It is good to love the unknown.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.