Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.
Jacqueline Woodson
RacismUnknownSenseComeBoth
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.
John C. Calhoun
MenPovertyCountryUnknownWill
Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene
DesignUnknown
The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.
Jen Sincero
FearGrowthKeyUnknownJumping
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
Francis Bacon
ReligionUnknownBeliefReasonThan
People are scared of the unknown.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
PeopleUnknownScared
I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
Zedd
SongUniqueUnknownFreshBring
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
Amos Oz
LiveWorldUnknownOutsideOutFar
It's much easier to work with an unknown.
Taylor Hackford
WorkUnknownEasierMuch
An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.
Tom Wujec
TodayTimeDaySkyWorldUnknown
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
LoveUnknownBooksAboutJourneys
We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.
Ron Livingston
ScienceThinkUnknownExploringSort
When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.
Nathan Wolfe
FutureFocusRisksUnknownWayDeal
The unknown is always interesting.
Michael Ovitz
InterestingUnknownAlways
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
FearManSafetyUnknownEmotion
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
Haley Joel Osment
FearPeopleHeightsUnknownHard
The big unknown is, at what point is a cyberattack so significant that it warrants a physical-world response.
Jared Cohen
UnknownPointBigSignificant
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda
BalanceUniverseUnknownKnown
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.
Dmitri Mendeleev
DiscoveryUnknownExpectExample
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld
KnowSayUnknownThingsKnownAlso
I had seen a lot of people who had been released from WWE, or asked for their release, and gone out into the wild unknown. There's more cases of it being unsuccessful than successful.
Cody Rhodes
PeopleUnknownMoreWildOutGone
The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.
Chuck Todd
CalmToughUnknownMatterOffice
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
Alice Morse Earle
WomenHabitLearnAmericaUnknown
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