Extraordinary Quotes - page 6

The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam. (John Maynard Keynes)
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it. View quote
Adam Smith
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are. View quote
Mark Nepo
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. View quote
Mark Haddon
I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices. View quote
Megan Chance
To find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality. Make it your life's mission today to bring to the attention of another just how extraordinary they are. Say it. Say it. SAY it. Their heart is waiting to know that their own best thought about themselves can be believed. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Naples is extraordinary in every way. View quote
Norman Lewis
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. View quote
Robert Shea
It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then. (Steven Johnson)
Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary. View quote
Tim Roth
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. View quote
William Boyd
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. View quote
Walter Lord
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations. View quote
Walter Hill
If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain. View quote
Junot Diaz
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself. View quote
Bear Grylls
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships. View quote
Vikas Swarup
One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur. (Graham Swift)
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. View quote
Jeremy Paxman
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way. View quote
Don Tapscott
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940. View quote
Edmund Phelps
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim. View quote
Carlos Eire