Extraordinary Quotes

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Reality is always extraordinary.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.