Quotes About Extraordinary

Standing in the doorway and glancing round me, I had a general impression of extraordinary comfort and elegance combined with an atmosphere of masculine virility.

I ejaculated after I had twice read over the extraordinary announcement. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair

Si queremos encontrar efectos extraños y combinaciones extraordinarias, debemos buscarlos en la vida misma, que siempre es más atrevida que cualquier ezfuerzo de la imaginación

It simply did not occur to her that she had hurt him as deeply as she had, because she still thought of herself as an ordinary woman, and him as an extraordinary man.

which was an unheard-of accomplishment.

These traits strike her as unusual

As Montaigne wrote, observing late-sixteenth-century life, "To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death, and so much less natural than others: it is the last and extremest kind of dying.

It was so extraordinarily out of the ordinary.

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

Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.

In his most important and most extraordinary work, a mere dozen or so pages long, he sought to demonstrate that even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric, coarsely sensory-based, anthropomorphic understanding of the world around us.

A largo plazo, el «Imperio español», el primer imperio mundial en el que nunca se ponía el sol, se convirtió en un mero tópico de la historia mundial, un asunto generalmente asumido debido a su larga duración. Pero una historia de expansión que duró más de mil años y que atañe a una parte muy considerable del mundo no es un asunto banal, sino algo realmente extraordinario, uno de los hitos más grandes de la historia universal.

Charlie, you're one of the most gifted people I've ever known. And I don't mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I've ever met.

I just want you to know that you're very special and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has.

And I think everyone is special in their own way.

El hecho de que oficiales y soldados rasos se vinieran abajo bajo la constante tensión y vulnerabilidad no es nada extraordinario. Lo verdaderamente extraordinario es que tantos hombres no se hundiesen.

There is no such thing as a standard, run-of-the-mill, human being.

However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible.

How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.