Known Quotes

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

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.

I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

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

The name of Peru was not known to the natives.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

I've always known I wanted a family.

I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

I've also always known that I wouldn't be playing for the N.B.A.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.