Remarkable Quotes - Page 21

• American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

  Nora Ephron

  Change, Taken, Going Away

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• We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

  Iris Murdoch

  Light, Self, Secret

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Struggle, Thinking, Race

  Lorraine Hansberry (1972). “Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry”, Random House Inc

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• The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

  Madame de Stael

  Beautiful, Memories, Events

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• It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

  Sara Coleridge

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.380

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• Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . .

  Jackie Mason

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Wife

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• Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

  Gladys Taber

  Cat, Lovers, Knows

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• We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Eye, Giving, Shadow

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• I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Thinking, Together

  Source: quickbase.intuit.com

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• Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

  Miles Franklin

  Cheer, Men, Grandpa

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.66, ETT Imprint

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• In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, World

  Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.1

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• There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Fighting, Thinking

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.

  Harriet Martineau

  Party, Two, Political

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• the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.

  Margery Allingham

  Dog, Eye, Men

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.26, Ipso Books

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• You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Cosmos, Objects, Lurking

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• I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

  Bill Bryson

  Fashion, Moving, Pieces

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Blood, Roots

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• At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs with sensuality and moral courage, as if it didn't take place in a society that denies the tick of the heart.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Moon, Voice

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• Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as no one has done before. Scott and Zelda become, in Spargo's remarkable novel, not people of history but of literature, and reminders of what we fight for, what we fail to win, and the beauty that abides between. A marvel of a book.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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• [On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Race, Practice, Giving

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• In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happiness, Knowledge, Technology

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.5, Tharpa Publications US

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• The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

  Anna Leonowens

  Writing, Men, Degrees

  Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, Applewood Books

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• John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Medicine, Two, Together

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• It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Powerful, People, Effort

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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