Remarkable Quotes - Page 25

• Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mediocrity, Literature, Respectable

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Past, Years, People

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.3

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• The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Regret, Character, Creating

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller”, p.45, Litres

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• One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color.
  Like the young sunflower, when we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. He truly is our light and life.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Flower, Son, Light

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• It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, Men, Giving

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.

  Cato the Younger

  Thinking, Men, Differences

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• Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Ambition, Rocks, Eagles

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• The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Distance, Ghetto, Space

  Kenneth E. Boulding (2017). “Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms”, p.149, Routledge

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• The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services.

  David F. Swensen

  Retirement, Simple, Government

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• Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.

  Keith Devlin

  Teacher, Couple, School

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• It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

  Richard Whately

  Prudent, Circumstances, Cunning

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.238

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• Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

  Moses Finley

  Evil, Greek, Common

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 44, 1985.

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• In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.

  Haile Selassie

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Community

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• If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

  Barbara Mertz

  Lying, Weakness, Down And

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• It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blood, Hands, Iron

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• The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

  Vicki Baum

  Squares, Cities, House

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• Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.

  A. O. Scott

  Art, Causes, Demise

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• The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

  Zig Ziglar

  Successful, Challenges, Problem

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• [F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

  Gideon Haigh

  Years, Games, Innovation

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• A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.

  Anne Rice

  Baby, Adventure, Eye

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• It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since, as Swift says, it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.

  Roger Scruton

  Philosophy, Believe, Political

  "A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism". Book by Roger Scruton, 2006.

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• The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

  Frances Trollope

  Female, Want, Males

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press

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• Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Weight, Littles

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• Any man who pursues for peace is a remarkable man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Men, Pursue

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• The breadth and depth of what dogs do for our happiness and longevity is pretty remarkable.

  Marty Becker

  Happiness, Dog, Depth

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