#uncommon

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ↗

— Dawn French

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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. ↗

— Stephen King

#people #scent #small #small towns #towns

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon. ↗

— Norman Angell

#common #common man #greatest #greatest service #him

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#uniqueness #imagination

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ↗

— Dean Inge

#common #common sense #degree #sense #uncommon

Uncommon valor was a common virtue. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#uncommon #valor #virtue

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed. ↗

— Michael Chang

#bit #doctors #flexibility #healed #i

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. ↗

— Henry J. Heinz

#common #common thing #success #thing #uncommonly

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#common #common things #endeavor #far #our

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#because #converse #drink #during #eat