Extraordinary Quotes
1519 Extraordinary quotes by 1159 unique authors
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Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
— Samuel Smiles
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The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder within nature is…
— Shmuley Boteach
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Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
— Shelley Winters
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Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud..
— Nelson Mandela
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By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth…
— Laozi
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History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on…
— Tony Robbins
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When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.
— Oprah Winfrey
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I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.
— Unknown Author
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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of…
— Silas House
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God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the…
— A B Simpson
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I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.
— Dorothy McGuire
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We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception…
— Paul Michael Glaser
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The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created…
— Michael Feinstein
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It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.
— Riccardo Muti
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Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.
— C.S. Lewis
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I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
— Elon Musk
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Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
— Azim Premji
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I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design…
— Judi Dench
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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing…
— Blaise Pascal
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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its…
— Ray Kurzweil
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I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it…
— Clive Barker
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