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Letter "W" » well known
«A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Celebrity,
Work
| Keywords:
dark glasses, glasses, well known
«Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.»
«And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
| Keywords:
blankets, chair, fast asleep, lap, pillow, Rousseau, slightest, softly, sound asleep, The Shadows, The Wall, tire, well known
«Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.»
«(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) / Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: / But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, / In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; / By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, / By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, / By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; / As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; / As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
afflictions, approving, armour, Armour of God, blamed, chastened, deceivers, dishonour, longsuffering, ministers, ministry, necessities, offence, pureness, rejoicing, right hand, sorrowful, stripes, tumults, unfeigned, well known
«After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.»
«Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
arcane, best-known, concealed, obvious, well known
«It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves peaceably at all times, regardless of government attacks and persecutions u»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Country,
Peace,
Violence
| Keywords:
attacks, conducted, consistently, followed, liberation, organizations, peaceably, persecutions, regardless, well known
«If I could paraphrase a well-known statement by Will Rogers that he never met a man he didn't like -- I'm afraid we have some people around here who never met a tax they didn't like.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
paraphrase, paraphrases, Rogers, statement, well known, Will Rogers
«For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
come to light, crannies, cranny, well known
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