Extraordinary Quotes

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. (Robertson Davies)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. View quote
Norman Mailer
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. View quote
Gerard Way
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. View quote
Matthew Henry
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. View quote
Uta Hagen
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. View quote
William Hazlitt
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. View quote
Bruce Lee
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. View quote
Noël Coward
The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence. View quote
Carl Sagan
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. View quote
Denis Diderot
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. View quote
Barack Obama
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. View quote
Billy Joel
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... View quote
Nicholas Sparks