Extraordinary Quotes

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The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to… — Edmond Jabes
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit! — Unknown Author
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. — Charles Francis Richter
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear… — Peter Matthiessen
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on… — Arthur Conan Doyle
What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee — William Shakespeare
The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity… — James A. Baldwin
We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the… — Coleman Dowell
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of… — Sun Tzu
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect… — Murray Gell-Mann
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities. — Raymond Chandler
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. — Chuck Noll
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle. — Unknown Author
Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those… — Howard W. Hunter
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis. — Benjamin Disraeli
Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint… — Brad Pitt
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream… — Rajneesh
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the… — Bill Frist

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