#remark

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ↗

— Willa Cather

#another man #arrogance #commonplace #conceit #dark

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#come #day #fact #forever #hasn

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#ignorance #knowledge #remarkable

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#bearings #been #chain #deduce #events

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#children #dictatorship #easily #grown-ups #how

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#clear #common #pulse #remarkably #seemed

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years. ↗

— Major Taylor

#been #careers #clean #clean living #exertion

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#before #conclusion #fact #future #greater

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#each #favourite #friendship #fruit #hard

You're just jealous." "Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#sex #snarky-remarks #jealousy