Quotes About Remarkable

When Constantine was told that the Roman rabble had stoned the head of his statue, he raised his hands to his head and said, 'How remarkable. I don't feel the least bit hurt.

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

You were always cheerful - tho' often left to your own devices. You were hardly ever out of temper - tho' often severely provoked. Your every speech was remarkable for its wit and genius - tho' you got no credit for it and almost always received a flat contradiction.

You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.

It is really quite remarkable," Sarah said, "that the two of you are sisters." "I marvel at it every day," Iris said flatly.

How did you explain that some people were special? That they were somehow more than everyone else?

Is she there now?" It was remarkable how quickly this was growing tedious. "Seb—" "Now? "Why are you here?

It's insane but it's a great insane.

I want to inspire others - and you have to do something incredible to get anybody's attention.

Heard of her,' Hillary said, thinking back. 'Tall woman

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Awesome is the word one uses for Eleanor Roosevelt, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and pitching a no-hit no-run ballgame. Not available for the crappy cheese quesadilla you had this afternoon, nor for anybody who Dances with the Stars. With or without a wooden leg.)

Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political knowledge in remarkable ways, and was an outspoken, radical opponent of the war, its nationalism and its capitalism

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 government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

I had long known the story of Aaron Burr, but when I heard about his remarkable daughter, Theodosia, about the relationship between the two and about her tragic disappearance, I knew I wanted to tell their story.

The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance. It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense - the home sense - which operates unerringly.

Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

A 7-footer who hits a step-back jumper - that's a pretty unicorn-like thing. Or someone who blocks a shot off the top of the backboard, pushes it in transition, and finds a shooter in the corner - that's pretty unicorn-like.

I could not let power win. . . Other remarkable things had to happen now, a whole string of remarkable things, one after another until the war was won. I was small, and I'd only done one small thing, really: but still it was a mighty thing. Mightier than what power was doing, with its bombs and guns. It was something great. It was enough.