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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Tags: Generation, Past ✍ Author: Spiro T. AgnewSeparate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
Tags: Separate ✍ Author: Conrad AikenFame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Tags: Experience, Goes ✍ Author: Marilyn MonroeI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Tags: Great, Old ✍ Author: Mark TwainArt is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Tags: Art, Intense ✍ Author: Oscar WildeEach generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Tags: Generation, Goes ✍ Author: Ronald ReaganFor the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Tags: Cannot, Knowledge ✍ Author: Louis BaconThe best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
Tags: Begin, Best ✍ Author: BalthusI did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tags: Rumor, Standards ✍ Author: Tallulah BankheadThe gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Tags: Business, Looks ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceOf the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Tags: Money, Simply ✍ Author: Warren BuffettWhat is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Tags: Care, Yourself ✍ Author: Lord ByronA celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Tags: Celebrity, Glad ✍ Author: Lord ByronRight whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.
Tags: Move, Water ✍ Author: James CagneyIt's a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly.
Tags: Football, Forward ✍ Author: Timothy F. CahillI'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.
Tags: Boxing, Written ✍ Author: Morley CallaghanOur first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.
Tags: Country, Spirit ✍ Author: Kim CampbellThe great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Tags: Great, Read ✍ Author: Elias CanettiI am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
Tags: Felt, Grateful ✍ Author: Orson Scott CardThe more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
Tags: Behind, Difficult ✍ Author: Vincent D\'OnofrioVisit partners pages
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
Tags: Bitterness, Reign ✍ Author: Bao DaiAddress these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
Tags: Issues, Keep ✍ Author: Ted DansonYou've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.
Tags: Respected, South ✍ Author: Tom DaschleI've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
Tags: Good, Neighbor ✍ Author: Steve EarleI was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
Tags: Born, Sweden ✍ Author: Chiwetel EjioforGeorge Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.
Tags: Funniest, Men ✍ Author: Britt EklandSelf-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
Tags: Greatest, Woman ✍ Author: Albert EllisHuman affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Tags: Clearly, Human ✍ Author: Desiderius ErasmusThe accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
Tags: Health, Moral ✍ Author: Giovanni FalconePerhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
Tags: Alone, Level ✍ Author: Nigel FarageNot a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Tags: Business, Principles ✍ Author: William FeatherIt was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
Tags: Against, Dangerous ✍ Author: Douglas FeithWell, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.
Tags: Mind, Spring ✍ Author: Julian FellowesMen get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Tags: Men, Women ✍ Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldI've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.
Tags: Success, Surprised ✍ Author: Eva GaborIn Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.
Tags: Gods, Jokes ✍ Author: Sunil GangopadhyayThe Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.
Tags: Today, Used ✍ Author: Stephen GardinerThe problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Tags: Problem, Useful ✍ Author: Carl Friedrich GaussI think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.
Tags: Scattered, Uncertain ✍ Author: Clifford GeertzIn the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Tags: Medical, Name ✍ Author: Edward Everett HalePrecisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
Tags: Precisely ✍ Author: Granville Stanley HallBulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
Tags: Fall, Superior ✍ Author: Lawrence HalprinI've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
Tags: Depressed, Life ✍ Author: Earl Hamner, Jr.Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Tags: Few, Friendship ✍ Author: William HazlittI have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Tags: Call, Saying ✍ Author: Jimi HendrixWhen things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Tags: Call, Heavy ✍ Author: Jimi HendrixI was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
Tags: Religious, Wife ✍ Author: Lou HoltzFreedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Tags: Freedom, Virus ✍ Author: Hubert H. HumphreyThere are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Tags: Between, Perception ✍ Author: Aldous HuxleyI have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
Tags: Few, Weekend ✍ Author: Vanilla IceI don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.
Tags: Black, Model ✍ Author: Chanel ImanThere is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.
Tags: Either, Simply ✍ Author: Shintaro IshiharaOf course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
Tags: Time, Word ✍ Author: Roman JakobsonI have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.
Tags: Peace, Perfect ✍ Author: Frank JamesI don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.
Tags: Face, Off ✍ Author: Kevin JamesTo be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Tags: Means, Simply ✍ Author: William JamesOh well, when I was younger I was known for breaking hearts. I am the kind of person that falls passionately in love but then a couple of months down the line, I fall out of love.
Tags: Fall, Love ✍ Author: Jenna JamesonThere is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.
Tags: Everybody, Matter ✍ Author: Robert JarvikThe vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Tags: Secret, Vanity ✍ Author: Samuel JohnsonMuch is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.
Tags: Batman, Written ✍ Author: Bob KanePersian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
Tags: Social, Society ✍ Author: Moshe KatsavBoth of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.
Tags: Both, Times ✍ Author: Alan KayIf I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
Tags: Rather, Son ✍ Author: Wilhelm KeitelI've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
Tags: Hurt, Resent ✍ Author: Anne LamottI have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.
Tags: Great, Wonderful ✍ Author: Lillie LangtryI've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
Tags: Hungry, Restaurant ✍ Author: Ring LardnerThere's nothing you can know that isn't known.
✍ Author: John LennonThe broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
Tags: Deception, Since ✍ Author: Gabriel MachtWhen I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.
Tags: Learned, Show ✍ Author: Richard MaddenMy first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
Tags: Acting, Class ✍ Author: John MahoneyHow individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Tags: Cannot, Power ✍ Author: MaimonidesThe most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
Tags: Begins, System ✍ Author: Henry James Sumner MaineThe Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
Tags: History, Human ✍ Author: Henry James Sumner MaineWho hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Tags: Himself, Knew ✍ Author: Louis MalleWe have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Tags: Give, Time ✍ Author: Thomas MertonThere are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Tags: Between, Unknown ✍ Author: Jim MorrisonLiterature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Tags: Literature, Sweetest ✍ Author: Vladimir NabokovNonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.
Tags: Country, Real ✍ Author: Janet NapolitanoTime passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
Tags: Power, Time ✍ Author: James NasmythThe tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
Tags: Making, Wishes ✍ Author: Bill NelsonWhen Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Tags: Alive, Poet ✍ Author: Howard NemerovI don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
Tags: Attention, Trying ✍ Author: Cam NewtonNaturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
Tags: Nice, Time ✍ Author: Jack NicklausI'm not going to work so that Pena Nieto is the best known or most recognized in the world. I'm going to work so that Mexico has results.
Tags: Best, Work ✍ Author: Enrique Pena NietoOf course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
Tags: Everyone, Write ✍ Author: Abraham PaisSo I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.
Tags: Looking, Unique ✍ Author: Evan Parker