#remarkable

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#attuned #ears #enhances #evil #fellow

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. ↗

— William Banting

#change #clothing #conceivable #convincing #diminished

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#customary #epoch #law #order #privileged

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#always #around #constraints #except #extreme

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ↗

— George Orwell

#atrocities #capacity #committed #disapprove #does

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

— Sidney Poitier

#also #dad #good #good person #individual

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#about #before #chiefly #generally #gets

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#actually #creative #creative process #day #exciting

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. ↗

— Josh Billings

#else #hundred #i #known #live

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#beyond #contain #cube #cubes #demonstration