#known

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up. ↗

— Christopher Knight

#friendship #known #may #me #some

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized. ↗

— Romeo LeBlanc

#am #anything #bit #canadians #courage

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#aspects #being #brings #broadened #consciousness

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

— David Mallet

#hath #himself #his #ill #knew

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. ↗

— Joseph R. McCarthy

#communist #communist party #department #five #hand

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. ↗

— Charles Tennyson Turner

#had #known #louis #night #occasional

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bird #flies #generally #happy #human

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems. ↗

— Francis Brett Young

#mystery #unknown #life

It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake. ↗

— Anne Rice

#unknown #science

Pieces" Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more? Am I just as full as anyone else? Enough? Pieces. Allys saying "I like you" Gabriel snorting out bread freeing me to laugh. And Ethan reminding me how much I do know. Pieces. I hold them likethey are life itself. They nearly are. ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#life #pieces #unknown #life