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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. — Michael Harrington

Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it. — George Vecsey

My father was the best person i've ever known. — Warren Buffett

He was best known, however, for his instinct. Jade had instinct like a tiger on the prowl; it seemed to come from the very blood running in his veins. — Gregg Hurwitz

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. — Ellis Peters

Science's best-known victories were those of Copernicanism and Darwinism. — Gary B. Ferngren

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly. — Amy Lee

I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest. — Evel Knievel

In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option - we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing. — Steve Krug

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. — Matthew Arnold

Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother. — Stephen Rodrick

I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it. — Anna Howard Shaw

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness. — Eckhart Tolle

Every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word. — Adam Langer

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity. — Donald Johanson

Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man. — Bryce Courtenay

God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life. — John William Mackay

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong. — Cokie Roberts

The best random keys are created by harnessing natural physical processes, such as radioactivity, which is known to exhibit truly random behavior. The — Simon Singh

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. — Matthew Arnold

The best meta-emotion predictor of wellbeing is a variable known as nonjudge. — Emily Nagoski

I looked at Laura . . . and wondered at how many lives before this life we might have known together. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. — William Cowper

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. — Alex Haley

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times. — Maya Angelou

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. — Balthus

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades

I'm not going to work so that Pena Nieto is the best known or most recognized in the world. I'm going to work so that Mexico has results. — Enrique Pena Nieto

As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved. — Robin Hobb

Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it. — Kristin Cashore

I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world. — Rudy Giuliani

His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous. — Johann Pachelbel

Adam Lambert is one of my best friends. I've known him since he was an understudy in 'Wicked.' Such a doll. — Alessandra Torresani

When it came to monsters, she'd known the very best.' ... this is a proper quote from the book by the way, the beginning and end one isn't. — Shehanne Moore

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

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best. — George Carlin

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. — Michel De Montaigne

As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs. — Ira Kaplan

Keep what you have; the known evil is best. — Plautus

The power to achieve your best health goes beyond your immune system. It all starts with a little-known secret: loving yourself. — Louise L. Hay

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others. — Napoleon Hill

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators. — Jill Lepore

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.] — Plautus

You remind me of him. He was the best man I have ever known. — C.S. Pacat

LARRY NIVEN is best known as a science-fiction writer. — Neil Gaiman

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. — Bertrand Russell

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing. — Sogyal Rinpoche

I should have known I'd find you out here, doing your best to turn yourself into an icicle — Cassandra Clare

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short. — Richard Armour

Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress! — Matthew Williamson

No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands. — Nixon Waterman

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. — Charles Dickens

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman

Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham. — Mary Balogh

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig. — Marie Osmond

I've known my two best girlfriends since junior high school. — Leslie Mann

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

As long as I've known her, she's seen the very best version of me, even when I didn't believe that guy existed. — Amanda Weaver

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. — Boris Beizer

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century. — Saul David

If i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity. — Ming-Dao Deng

I want to be known as the best teammate ever. — Kevin Garnett

Crap was not a bad word. It was the shortened name of the marketing genius of the best known flush toilet, John Crapper. Really. — Faith Hunter

The best known evil is the most tolerable. — Livy

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. — Jared Diamond

father's best friends, and Dax had known him all his life. Dax and his father had hunted with Herne in the forests north and east of Tazzelton, and — William L. Culbertson

One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people. — Nicola Sturgeon

You are more than you appear to be - Life is greater than you have ever known it - The best is yet to come. — Ernest Holmes

I was convinced that being ripped in two by him would be the best pleasure I'd ever known. — Christina Lauren

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. — Robert Herrick

The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known. — Megan Whalen Turner

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. — Nicolas Caussin

The journey pathways are best known by the traveler. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A Love Supreme' is Coltrane's best-known and best-selling album. — Lewis Porter

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were. — Kato Kaelin

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies. — Melissa De Sousa

The journey of life pathways are best known by the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the best things about sex with a Banshee, however, is that she will make her needs known freely. — Francesca Lia Block

Ellen might have known her best friend would think of something like that. — Beverly Cleary

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role. — Marcus Brigstocke

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers. — Vincent Cassel

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself. — Jenny Han

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women. — Charles Fourier

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed. — Nancy Reagan