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Quotes About Unprecedented

In this unprecedented moment in American history, there is no more time for tinkering around the edges. It is time to reject "conventional wisdom" and "incrementalism." It is time to fundamentally rethink our adherence to the system of unfettered capitalism, and to address the unspeakable harm that system is doing to us all.
~ Bernie Sanders
To sum up: We need to accomplish something gigantic we have never done before, much faster than we have ever done anything similar.
~ Bill Gates
I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating side - which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control.
~ Debra Granik
Numbers of men, or things which had been men, dropped to the floor and began lapping at the puddles of spilled liquor, but most remained immovable, watching the unprecedented actions of the barroom drudge and derelict.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Of these, only the last, the crime against humanity, was new and unprecedented. Aggressive warfare is at least as old as recorded history, and while it has been denounced as criminal many times before, it has never been recognized as such in any formal sense.
~ Hannah Arendt
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. Comprehension does not mean denying the outrageous, deducing the unprecedented from precedents, or explaining phenomena by such analogies and generalities that the impact of reality and the shock of experience are no longer felt.
~ Hannah Arendt
To sound off with a cheerful 'give me liberty or give me death' sort of argument in the face of the unprecedented and inconceivable potential of destruction in nuclear warfare is not even hollow; it is downright ridiculous.
~ Hannah Arendt
We have never, ever, in the history of football seen a guy that possesses what Aaron Rodgers possesses. Nobody, no quarterback in history, has the touch, the accuracy, the ability to throw the ball moving left or right, throw the ball from the pocket, throw the ball from different plains.
~ Shannon Sharpe
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
~ Meg Rosoff
As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" Mark 2:12
~ Beth Moore
I think the diplomatic-security needs in Iraq were an anomaly. There's never been a bulge of requirements that large ever before.
~ Erik Prince
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
~ Howard Carter
And because of all that we have been through, I am sick of the word unprecedented. The use of the word unprecedented is unprecedented. Make it stop.
~ Susan Scott
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
~ Bono
WWE is all about doing things that have never been done.
~ Kofi Kingston
Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.
~ Ross Levinsohn
Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.
~ Chubby Checker
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
~ Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
Che non si dica che non ho detto niente di nuovo: la disposizione delle materie è nuova.
~ Blaise Pascal
Oh, what love this was, free, unprecedented, unlike anything else! They thought the way other people sing.
~ Boris Pasternak
And more than that, the United States of America was a whole new type of nation. Nothing like America had ever been tried before in the history of the world.
~ Brad Meltzer
Gideon, you don't fit any type, I drawled. You're in a class by yourself
~ Sylvia Day
He's not sick, is he? He's never sick. There's a first time for everything.
~ Sylvia Day
If modern science made possible weapons of unprecedented destructiveness like the machine gun and the bomber, modern politics created a state of unprecedented power, for which a new word, totalitarianism, had to be coined.
~ Francis Fukuyama