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Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion. -- Junius
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. -- Thomas Carlyle
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -- B. C. Forbes
Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it. -- Hugh B. Brown
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Advancement: Notable leaders chart the course of action that causes other leaders to progress toward reaching a goal and raising the status of power. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice. -- Padgett Powell
Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange. -- Gilbert Sorrentino
Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book. -- Myla Goldberg
Too much agreement kills a chat. -- Eldridge Cleaver
Make your mistakes, next year and forever. -- Neil Gaiman
Few people have the imagination for reality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements. -- Walt Disney
We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. -- Hillary Clinton
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. -- E. M. Forster
It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president. -- Mitch McConnell
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. -- Ezra Pound
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. -- Charles de Gaulle
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea. -- Julia Jones
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. -- Milton Friedman
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. -- Rachel Sklar
I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am. -- Jesse Eisenberg
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS. -- Barton Gellman
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. -- Edward R. Murrow
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. -- Robertson Davies
One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. -- Octavio Paz
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. -- Otto Weininger
But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before. -- Daniel Goleman
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne
Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution. -- Mel White
I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers. -- Daniel Woodrell
If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life. -- Walter Brueggemann
Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves. -- Eric Maskin
The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. -- Joseph Goebbels
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value. -- Roland Barthes
When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work. -- Jim Rash
I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery. -- Charles B. Rangel
If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century. -- Catherine Martin
Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their own idols to represent God until Jesus returns. The religion of fundamentalism is idolatry. -- Mel White
With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension. -- Adrian McKinty
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts. -- Saint Ignatius
I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm able to look at every day, most of them either by notable friends and/or for projects that I've worked on. -- Chip Kidd
Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me. -- Stephen Chbosky
Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known for these properties, but the lion's mane mushroom, in particular, has drawn the attention of researchers for its notable nerve-regenerative properties. -- Paul Stamets
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. -- Oscar Wilde
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world. -- Daniel Webster
Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life. -- Jerry Robinson
I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do. -- Gustav Klimt
I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on 'Saturday Night Live' since Eddie Murphy. -- Tracy Morgan
If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever. -- Mel White
For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable. -- Thomas Wyatt
I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting. -- Clark Gable
when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprint on earth -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. -- Brendan Gill
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. -- Georges Didi-Huberman
most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. -- John Dewey
Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes. -- Vance Havner
I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men. -- Abraham Lincoln
The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time. -- Tao Lin
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world. -- Ambrose Bierce
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve. -- Steve Coogan
If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances. -- Sallie Krawcheck
All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone. -- William Butler Yeats
There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable. -- Evan Esar
His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man. -- Tennessee Williams
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb? -- Chuck Baldwin
For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,. -- Chris Cannon
It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads. -- Willam Belli
It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared -- Cassandra Clare
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He's not like you, Tod. Aside from a couple of notable exceptions, you tend to think things through, but Nash is ruled by his heart"? -- Rachel Vincent
One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it. -- Jeff Cooper
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein. -- Bennett Cerf
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements -- Albert Bandura
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -- B. C. Forbes
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Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies. -- Herbert J. Muller
If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. -- Palmer Luckey
At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact... -- Aberjhani
I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people. -- Darryl Dawkins
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them. -- Brian Eno
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared -- Otto Weininger
Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself. -- Walter J. Phillips
Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality. -- Jennifer Dunning
The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil. -- Andrew Williams
The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves. -- J. M. Coetzee
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters. -- Antoine Rivarol
The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities. -- Adrienne Rich
When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher. -- Julianna Baggott

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