But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be…

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness…

— Christine Lagarde

Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family when the country was still a…

— Wong Kar-wai

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

— Salma Hayek

“Not all of our days could be extraordinary. But our lives still could be.”

— Erin Mckittrick

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

— Paulo Coelho

“All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Too many people say they want someone extraordinary in their lives but they aren't extraordinary themselves.

— Matthew Hussey

Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them…

— William Martin

I am particularly looking forward to meeting ordinary American people and hearing about their extraordinary lives.

— Jeremy Kyle

“It was Aunt Lovey's belief that all ordinary people led extraordinary lives, but just didn't notice.”

— Lori Lansens

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

— Louis L'Amour

“At any time in history, gazillions of lives are being lived simultaneously. In Zimbabwe, Thailand, Tasmania, and Borneo, in the poorest hovel and the…

— Kelly Easton

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us…

— Robert Fulghum

“Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.”

— Sigmund Freud