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I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot. — Joyce Maynard

Singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices. — Laini Taylor

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. — J.K. Rowling

Dead! He had known. Of course he had known. — Alan McCluskey

She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day. — Sarah Addison Allen

Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift. — Louise Penny

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. — Andrew Solomon

I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known. — Bear Grylls

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. — Lord Henry Wotton

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all? — Tom Robbins

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men. — Marc Bloch

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera. — Gordon Parks

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. — Barbra Streisand

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. — Rachel Field

It is remarkable to think that we have had electric lights and telephones for about as long as we have known that germs kill people. — Bill Bryson

Sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; — Jane Austen

Miss Bertram could now speak with decided information of what she had known nothing about, — Jane Austen

Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived. — Amanda Grange

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. — Kiefer Sutherland

Which transcended anything they had ever known. — Max Hastings

How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years? — Alcoholics Anonymous

... the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow. — Jasper Fforde

I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman

This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to be done. — Douglas Adams

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young. — Anna Lee

The life I had known scattered like the ashes of my wings, to be born again in the pure light of Abby's love. — Ashlan Thomas

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin. — Arnon Goldfinger

Cole should have known better. This man had probably tied down his wife and forced the wedding ring on her hand. He — Alessandra Torre

He had squandered the two most precious treasures ever known: the gift of life and the gift of love. — Jackson Radcliffe

Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see. — Albert Memmi

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all. — Willa Cather

... he had known darkness and despair, and emerged determined to light candles for everyone else. — Sebastien De Castell

If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you? — Joni Eareckson Tada

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. — Alexander Downer

I've always known that I had the happy facility of making enemies of any one I ever knew, — Nathaniel Philbrick

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. — Lois Wyse

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. — Thomas Hobbes

If I had known That day follows the night, That every shadow is cast by light, I would have understood The actions that he took. — Felix O. Hartmann

A fear unlike any he had ever known settled on his heart. 'Jesu, I have no breasts for milking. — Jessica Trapp

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving. — Stephen Colbert

He had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way. — Eleanor Catton

I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known. — T. Greenwood

My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. — Helen Grant

I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. — Alice McDermott

His warmth radiated around her and filled her spirit with an energy she had never known before. — J.M. Dain

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences. — Natalie Portman

Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known? — William Shakespeare

He'd never known he had so much fight in him. Never known he could be capable of so much... He was going to change the world. — Ethel Rohan

When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever. — Laurie R. King

I would not love him again. Not if I had known how it would feel to live with a broken heart. — Kristin Hannah

If I had known the world was ending, I'd have brought better books. — The Walking Dead

I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it. — Aleck Bourne

Eli was known to run a tight ship, and the last few years, old Pat had neglected the — Michael Phillip Cash

He had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him. — China Mieville

I wish I had known him, but he was just another shadow outside my screen door and I already had a sufficiency of shadows in. — Ray Bradbury

I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her? — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By — Nathaniel Hawthorne

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. — Thomas Jefferson

Esk wouldn't have known what a collective noun was if it had spat in her eye, but she knew there was a herd of goats and a coven of witches. — Terry Pratchett

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake. — Michelle M. Pillow

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist. — Sharon Sant

Like many people who don't easily commit, I think I had a fear of being known; I was not sure there was anybody inside there. — Jacqueline Bisset

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better. — Jean De La Bruyere

... she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before. — Jane Austen

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore. — Ian McKellen

Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had. — Rachel Simon

Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be. — Mahmoud Darwish

I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor. — Henry James

Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it. — Frank Herbert

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. — Max Beerbohm

If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress. — Jaime Murray

The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known. — Robert Jordan

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him. — Graham Moore

There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had. — Alan Parry

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth. — Peter Capaldi

Never had I known a young girl so beautiful and at the same time so gentle and intelligent. Where were her men? Where had they failed? — Charles Bukowski

He had never known her value, he thought, till now. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known. — Carson McCullers

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. — Nathan Lowell

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. — Madeleine L'Engle

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. — Khalil Gibran

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ. — Jean Baudrillard

Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai. — Dan Simmons

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. — Kenneth Noland

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn — Abbi Glines

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist. — Grant Achatz

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven. — Nicholas Sparks

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian. — Mahatma Gandhi

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex! — Benedict Cumberbatch

It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own. — James Joyce

He had not known to be born afraid, but he'd learned. — Maggie Stiefvater

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker. — Albert Einstein

- he could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them! — Edith Wharton

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. — J.K. Rowling

The Phillies in the 1960s had shortstop Bobby Wine and second baseman Cookie Rojas, a period known as the Days of Wine and Rojas. — Tim Kurkjian

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them. — Peg Sutherland