#unusual

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#biggest #bulwark #bunch #democracy #fall

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#disagreements #facts #i #into #mean

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#life #man #politician #private #public

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#circumstance #every #i #made #me

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#risk #settle #unusual #will #willing

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#clever #healthy #idea #illness #making

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ↗

— William James

#effort #means #metaphysics #nothing #obstinate

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

#i #kind #life #maybe #me

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#burdens #could #heavy #i #i always

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#easy #ego #ever #fifties #forties