Quotes About Uncommon

I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

I'm not a regular basketball player, I guess.

I like things that other people don't have. I like to be different from others.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

People like you don't come around too often.

Jack is a special performer, the kind that comes along once in a generation.

This time, however, it is not that I care for this dwelling; it is only because it is pretty and uncommon, and the sketch will be an interesting souvenir.

But when we're helping children understand how people from different walks of life can coexist, prioritizing common ground too often obscures or erases uncommon experiences.

We don't always see ourselves as superior, but we almost always see ourselves as unique.

And how many mundanes have ever done that? You are without guile, yet keep your own counsel, which is being a most unusual combination! You are having a slight talent of your own. You invite confidences. I say you are the greatest mundane authority on sorcery the world has ever seen!

I am not easy. I am a limited commodity.

You're the most infuriating woman I've ever met! Women normally fall all over themselves to see me smile at them. You're talking to me like I'm common trash." "Oh, I think you're very uncommon trash. Now why don't you just run along and find one of those women who like you so much? I need to figure out how to save Vendevorex.

A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

I am not in the roll of common men.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

I might be an endangered species.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

We were not put on this earth to be ordinary, we were created to be extraordinary.