(874 quotes found)
“Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.”
John McCain
“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves”
Henry David Thoreau
“The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.”
Thomas Hardy
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
George Orwell
“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty”
Rudyard Kipling
“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 found.”
Calvin Trillin
“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 we don't take credit for it.”
Ray Bradbury
“The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.”
Bill Bryson
“My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh