#remark

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#calm #crisis #even #keeping #remarkable

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #character #due #governor #history

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#city #francisco #inhabited #insane #insane people

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#back #belief #better #better off #brett

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#branch #clear #devote #entirely #exclusively

When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#appalled #comedians #comic #embarrassed #freddie

And Oscar would tell the old man his only regret: that he was living the unremarkable life his parents had always expected from him. ↗

— Benjamin Wood

#life

What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent. ↗

— James Levine

#big #big difference #both #difference #interesting

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

#consensus #convictions #debated #differences #durable

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. ↗

— Robert Musil

#attention #days #developed #disturbed #emotionally