Unsurpassed Quotes

#1. One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Laurie Colwin

#2. Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

Robert E.Lee

#3. Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

Walter J. Phillips

#4. The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

#5. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Jerry Saltz

#6. Novels are ... an unsurpassed form to understand people.

Henning Mankell

#7. We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.

Arthur Blank

#8. What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.

Lauren Kate

#9. I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#10. Well, neither vanity nor the need for adoration - the sad substitute for the supreme confirmation of one's existence which only love, mutual love, can give - belongs among the mortal sins; but they are unsurpassed prompters when we need suggestions for making fools of ourselves.

Hannah Arendt

#11. Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Richard Courant

#12. What makes the Bible utterly unlike any other book - religious or otherwise - is the unsurpassed grace we encounter in its pages. We need Scripture because without it we cannot know the love of God.

Kevin DeYoung

#13. Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

H.L. Mencken

#14. Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#15. I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.

Susan Minot

#16. The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

Laird Hamilton

#17. An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

Geza Vermes

#18. The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

Robert T. Bakker

#19. The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

Dogen

#20. Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement

J. Patrick Lewis

#21. The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence!

Edith Wharton

#22. Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground; diverse in nature and was miles apart but they complete each other.

Diyar Harraz

#23. In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.

Elias James Corey

#24. Every day, I am thinking:
'How can I lead all living beings
to enter the unsurpassed way
so as to quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?
(LS 16: 3.23)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 16, Section 3, Paragraph 23

Gautama Buddha

#25. The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

Sheila Ballantyne

#26. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.

Jeremy Campbell

#27. Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

Frederick Lenz

#28. But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#29. For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.

Michael Stipe

#30. Every year, I do a New Year's day party at my home. I invite my staff and my friends and their kids. Around 40-50 people come by, and I do a barbecue and salads, steak and sushi, and also lots of cheese.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#31. All our troubles, says somebody wise, come upon us because we cannot be alone.

D.H. Lawrence

#32. Nothing comes easy and nothing ever truly does.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#33. I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

David Levithan

#34. Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!

Moses