Extraordinary Quotes - page 35

We know only fragmentarily this extraordinary thing called life. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary. View quote
Lenny Kravitz
Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina. View quote
Christopher Lee
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul. View quote
Harold S. Kushner
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary. View quote
David Attenborough
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more. View quote
David Attenborough
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us. View quote
David Attenborough
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Charles Lindbergh, in life as in my novel, may have been a genuine racist and an anti-Semite and a white supremacist sympathetic to Fascism, but he was also - because of the extraordinary feat of his solo trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 - an authentic American hero 13 years before I have him winning the presidency. ... Trump, by comparison, is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac. View quote
Philip Roth
The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge. (J. J. Abrams)
If Pygmalion, is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table. View quote
David Cameron
Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
But because science doesn't know everything, that doesn't mean science knows nothing. Science knows enough for us to be watched by a few million people now on television, for these lights to be working, for quite extraordinary miracles to have taken place in terms of the harnessing of the physical world and our dim approaches towards understanding it. View quote
Stephen Fry
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
This has been an extraordinary election. View quote
Al Gore
Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
Limits... seem to me of two kinds, ordinary or natural, and extraordinary or beyond the natural. View quote
Adolphe Quetelet
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is. View quote
Edward Said
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back. (Shelley Winters)
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. View quote
Joseph Addison
But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. View quote
Andy Serkis
I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people. View quote
Rupert Everett
Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. View quote
Roger Ebert