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  • Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown. -- Hilary Duff
  • Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! -- Philibert Joseph Roux
  • Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race. -- Keir Hardie
  • You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step. -- Hannah Harding
  • When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art. -- Jeremy Piven
  • Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life. -- Yann Martel
  • At the time of birth an ordering takes place. The awarenesses come together; they become specific until a person dies. At that point all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go back again, into the great unknown. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing. -- Bob Riley
  • The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump? -- Jane Mayer
  • Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life." -- Yann Martel
  • At the time of birth an ordering takes place. The awarenesses come together; they become specific until a person dies. At that point all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go back again, into the great unknown. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I can't say for sure if I'm better off, since I have no way of knowing what would have been. I could have traveled to exotic places and kissed exotic men in the moonlight. Or I could have ended living alone in a dumpy apartment with the flesh eating virus I contracted from a public toilet. Could haves are always a great unknown. -- Anna White
  • Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. -- Charles de Gaulle
  • Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not. -- Adoniram Judson
  • Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. --
  • Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big. -- Eduardo Galeano
  • Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain. -- Paul Daniels
  • As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week. -- Rachel Zoe
  • Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths. -- Emilia Fox
  • I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that. -- Jim Goetz
  • Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights. -- Walter Ulbricht
  • What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great names, they can overcharge for their own inferior fluids. There is no trickledown effect in wine prices. -- Simon Hoggart
  • The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. -- Leonard Bernstein
  • Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. -- W. Clement Stone
  • Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike. -- Justin Rosenstein
  • It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it. For the entrepreneur? Not so much. Hitherto unknown relatives, entrepreneurs seeking angel investments, money managers and supposed baby-mamas all come out of the woodwork with dollar signs in their eyes. -- Sarah Lacy
  • Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.' -- Robert Davi
  • There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Every great story begins with a very courageous step into the land of the unknown. -- Edmond Mbiaka
  • More and more I've become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown. -- P. L. Travers
  • Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown. -- Idries Shah
  • Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown. -- Brian Tracy
  • The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
  • The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. -- Mark Twain
  • Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us? -- Plato
  • A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all. -- M. E. W. Sherwood
  • Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. -- Semir Zeki
  • To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed. -- Edward Abbey
  • That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
  • You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed. -- Joe Vitale
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