Quotes About Remarkable

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

It is OK if you don't fit in, history only remembers the exceptional.

We were not put on this earth to be ordinary, we were created to be extraordinary.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: 'the English have no arbitrary dismissal,' he noted, 'and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or resignation. More remarkable still is

I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

But still, this great awakening, this surpassing concern, was never excited by any harangues of terror, but always appeared most remarkable when I insisted upon the compassions of a dying Saviour, the plentiful provisions of the gospel, and the free offers of divine grace to needy distressed sinners.

What is remarkable is that all this was done, the bodies extracted, through the very mechanisms of the human economy, premised on the principle that human lives are the ultimate value, to which nothing could possibly compare.

Few achievements in our day have made a greater impression than that of the adventurous missionary who unaided crossed the Continent of Equatorial Africa. His unassuming simplicity, his varied intelligence, his indomitable pluck, his steady religious purpose, form a combination of qualities rarely found in one man. By common consent, Dr. Livingstone has come to be regarded as one of the most remarkable travellers of his own or of any other age.'—British Quarterly Review.

The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.

I want to do something extraordinary, not just make a tackle. I want to make people's eyes widen, like, 'God, you see that?

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

No one ever delighted a customer by being 'good enough'.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

Give the historians something to write about.