Remarkable Quotes

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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. — Irving Babbitt
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became… — Amitabh Bachchan
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to… — Douglas Adams
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. — Josh Billings
Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet… — Ray Bradbury
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. — Bill Bryson
There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American… — Bill Bryson
The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,… — George H. W. Bush
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten… — Julia Cameron
They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children or with a group of children because you see the kids… — Steve Carell
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion. — Richard Dawkins
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also… — Richard Dawkins
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in… — F. F. Bruce
Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole… — Freeman Patterson
We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has… — Derek Jacobi
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast… — Frederick Marryat
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education.… — Ernst Haeckel
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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