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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. — Annie Dillard

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. — Ellen Willis

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes. — Washington Irving

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance. — Anne Stuart

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world. — Franklin Pierce

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. — Charlie Chaplin

Instead of spreading antagonism or hate, try to make a positive remark about something. — Tyler Blackburn

Mma Makutsi had overheard this remark and had been so cross that her glasses misted over; that was always a bad sign, Mma Ramotswe knew. — Alexander McCall Smith

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

When I get free, I believe I'll show you your spine. I'll hand it to you so casually, politely even, as if expecting you to remark upon it. — Kresley Cole

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. — Richard M. Weaver

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Amazing, then, how with that one remark, he made a mortifying situation thirteen times worse. — Tessa Dare

I object to that remark very strongly!
- The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis

and all I have to remark is, damn the pies! — Robert L. Mack

An unkind remark is like a killing frost - no matter how much it warms up, the damage is already done. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. — Will Rogers

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!' — Daniel J. Boorstin

Jump high brother!! So high that if you fall, then people should remark on not how far you fell but how high you jumped — Anubhav Mishra

If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth. — Jeff Bezos

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark. — Deanna Raybourn

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. — Ambrose Bierce

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention. — E.B. White

Dammit, Flora, why do you always ruin everything?
A prophetic remark. I hope you picked up on that. — Daniel Handler

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark. — John Bright

There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'. — Marcel Proust

Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine. — Alan Bradley

She snorted in amusement at my remark. "When are the guards going to start to notice?"
Keith peered into the distance. "Starting now, — Erica Sehyun Song

Even at a distance, her mouth showed the small pursed conceit of a remark in the making. — Don DeLillo

I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark. — Julia Lee Dean

I delight in M'Cheyne's remark, It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny — Beryl Markham

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par. — Mark Twain

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period. — Mark Twain

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18 ... — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark? — Franz Kafka

It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust. — Robert Breault

Being quiet is the loudest remark. — Anthony Liccione

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds, — Ross Wetzsteon

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark. — Maxwell Maltz

Often diners remark that they are too pretty, too impressive to eat, but they always find a way to manage. — Erin Morgenstern

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel. — Ian McKellen

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. — Brad Paisley

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream. — E. M. Forster

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face. — Carol Anshaw

A remark of my brother's apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: "Old age is nature's self-criticism. — Emil M. Cioran

And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, Chance favors the prepared mind. — Richard Preston

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. — Quintilian

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. — George Augustus Henry Sala

Which I wish to remark
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. — Bret Harte

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away. — Prince Charles

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within. — Benjamin Franklin

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it. — Gary L. Graybill

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. — Alice Sebold

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side. — Charles Francis Richter

Their guess turned out to be right, but one is reminded of E. T. Bell's remark that the great vice of the Greeks was not sodomy but extrapolation. — John D. Clark

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. — Tennessee Williams

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark. — Cesare Pavese

I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line. — Jane Austen

Adela you are as smart as a boy." This remark stung, because if it meant that I was as smart as my brothers, I was still destined for idiocy. — Anonymous

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel. — Leslie Charteris

Baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. — Idries Shah

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water. — Mariah Carey

Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'd said it because I couldn't look directly at the sun and not remark that it was blinding and brilliant. — R.K. Lilley

Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them. — John McCain

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,
a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world. — Anna Cora Mowatt

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. — Victor Hugo

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war. — David K. E. Bruce

I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me. — Alexandre Dumas

Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?" I questioned. "That would be almost like being brain dead... — Vann Chow

Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. Why's — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work. — Charles Hodge

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish. — Miguel De Cervantes

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The thing to do with a silly remark is to fail to hear it. — Robert A. Heinlein

Voltaire argued that if God did not exist Man would be obliged to invent him, and was reviled for the remark. — Carl Sagan

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr. — Lewis Carroll

Of course I know that, Louisa. I do not see the application of the remark.' To do him justice he did not, at all. She — Charles Dickens

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly. — Franz Kafka

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on. — William Wilson Morgan