Remarkable Thing Quotes
33 quotes by 26 authors
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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
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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
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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
— Celia Green
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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises…
— Eric Hoffer
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A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.
— Alar Toomre
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Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
— Aristotle
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The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.
— Billy Graham
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a…
— Eric Hoffer
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The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original…
— Vincent Canby
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
— Robert Graves
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For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of…
— Junot Diaz
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Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
— Jeffrey Kluger
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A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
— Jaron Lanier
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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been…
— Calvin Trillin
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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when…
— Eric Hoffer
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That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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