Quotes About Extraordinary

As she spoke, Isabel found herself thinking of the power of words. A single word, a phrase, a sentence or two could have such extraordinary power; could end a world, break a heart or, as in this case, consign another to moral purdah.

My lord," said D'Artagnan, "Monsieur de Vallon [Porthos] is like me, he prefers service extraordinary—that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and impossible.

By anchoring our spiritual practice always within everyday life, we remove the arbitrary barriers between what is considered spiritual and extraordinary and what is material and ordinary.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing,' Genevieve worried. 'What would I tell them? 'Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, said Bloom.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing," Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?" "Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl," said Bloom.

suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

In the years of my life, nothing extraordinary had happened to me. Not until Jack. Not until this man, this man who could have anyone - who by all accounts had had lots of anyones - had begun to peruse me. His interest in me was so unexpected, and yet felt so right. I did not know why, but unlike anyone before him, he made me feel special, he made me feel like I stood out from all the women in the world. And he made me want to do lots of wild and crazy and extraordinary things.

All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.

In recent years, the critics of the West have marked themselves out through a set of extraordinary claims. Their technique now has a pattern. It is to zoom in on Western behavior, remove it from the context of the time, set aside any non-Western parallels, and then exaggerate what the West actually did.

You have to be odd to be number one

You have to be odd to be #1.

The colors of a fresh garden salad are so extraordinary, no painter's pallet can duplicate nature's artistry.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.

There are no ordinary lives.

But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.