Top 59 Quotes About Excelled
#1. I think you get the picture. [1976] was a year that like all years, a lot of things happened in. People were on TV or in movies, they wrote songs that were liked more than other songs, while other people excelled at sports, and, as always, a lot of accomplished and famous people died.
Carrie Fisher
#2. O fairest of all creation, last and best
Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,
Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote?
John Milton
#3. Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness.
Michael R. Fletcher
#4. I'm a mite worried about how Foodle will respond to being out here," her aunt continued. "She's so sensitive to strange surroundings." Foodle apparently excelled at hiding her sensitivities, for she was chasing her tail with great enthusiasm.
Sabrina Jeffries
#5. I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
Misty May-Treanor
#6. There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
Bernard De Mandeville
#7. One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
Pat Metheny
#8. The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.
Adam Smith
#9. It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
James Young
#10. John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
Harvey Gantt
#11. The one thing coaches cannot tolerate ... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
Zig Ziglar
#12. I might have hasked a question ... , except that 1. I didn't know what it was, and 2. I didn't care to learn, and 3. I never really excelled in small talk.
John Green
#13. In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill ...
Edward Gibbon
#14. Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.
Thomas Hobbes
#15. When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.
Meta Golding
#16. In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
James Rainwater
#17. Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
Sharon Gless
#18. The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled.
Erika Johansen
#19. So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then I could call the shots. So I became a community leader from inside.
Malik Yusef
#21. Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.
Basmah Bint Saud
#22. I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
Dave Bautista
#23. I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.
Hermann Maier
#24. I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.
Andrew O'Hagan
#25. In Mongolian culture, Khutulun is remembered by the sport in which she so excelled. These days when Mongolian men wrestle, they wear a sort of long-sleeved vest that is open in the front to prove tp their opponents they don't have breasts. It's a tribute to the woman wrestler who was never defeated.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
#26. One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.
Edward Thomson
#27. Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry ... Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.
J. Ruth Gendler
#28. Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.
Jim Rogers
#29. Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
Samuel Johnson
#30. I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on.
Paul Smith
#32. From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.
Heinrich Hertz
#33. There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian
#34. Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.
Dan Quayle
#35. The wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#36. A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.
Christopher Hitchens
#37. Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
#38. School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.
India De Beaufort
#39. As an immerser I progressed to the ranks I aspired to - those that granted me a certain cachet and income while keeping me from fundamental responsibilities. This is what I excelled at: the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah that we call floaking.
China Mieville
#40. At the worst times, the best plan was often no plan. And Ky excelled at coming up with no plan.
Gillian Bronte Adams
#41. He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight.
Bentley Little
#42. Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.
Richard Wagner
#43. I excelled in English while I was at school.
Jamie Bell
#44. I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills ... all apart from cooking.
Heston Blumenthal
#45. When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
Bat For Lashes
#46. I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.
Chris Geere
#47. On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.
George Gilder
#48. O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost
John Milton
#49. How can I say, with a straight face, you can be anything you want in this world - when I struggled and studied and excelled and still wound up on trial for something I did not do?
Jodi Picoult
#50. I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
Cary Elwes
#51. I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.
Albert Belle
#52. The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.
Kevin Cook
#53. Each creature had something it excelled at, he supposed. Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else.
Jim Butcher
#54. Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#55. A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.
Michael Bennet
#56. Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living.
Nancy Mitford
#57. Gall 3rst had this idea as a young boy when he
noticed that those of his classmates who excelled at
memorizing school assignments had prominent eyes.
KANDEL
#58. My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.
Dorothy Hamill
#59. MacMillian steepled his fingers on the head of his cane. Anticipation rose in his chest. Lena and Cyrus Alan might have an advantage over him when it came to hunting ghosts, but this was where he excelled. This part of the game was all about patterns. He saw patterns. Always had.
Laura Oliva
