Extraordinary Quotes - Page 36

• If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

  Stephen Spender

  People, Age, Alive

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• The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement.

  Ronald Reagan

  Ozone, Community, Achievement

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Way

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• A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

  Andy Stanley

  Tipping, Acts Of Courage, Tipping Point

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2012

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• We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

  Karl Jaspers

  Differences, Accepting

  Karl Jaspers (2009). “The Question of German Guilt”, p.5, Fordham Univ Press

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• Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Two, People

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.

  Ryan Hall

  Teacher, Suffering

  Twitter post from Jul 25, 2012

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• Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

  Ali MacGraw

  Life, Beauty, Hope

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• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Imagination, Vitality

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

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• THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.

  Irina Bokova

  Art, Moving, Diversity

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• Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

  Clive Barker

  Self, Ions, Soul

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Oct 06, 2013

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• Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.

  Alafair Burke

  Law, World, Zimmerman

  "What You May Not Know About the Zimmerman Verdict: The Evolution of a Jury Instruction" by Alafair Burke, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.

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• There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Flames, Sparks, Individual

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• 'American Sniper' is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, Mind, Criticism

  "'American Sniper' Is Almost Too Dumb to Criticize" by Matt Taibi, www.rollingstone.com. January 21, 2015.

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• We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Ordinary, Realizing

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• From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

  Epictetus

  Needs, Disappointing, Vow

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• Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Library, Ordinary

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2017

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.

  Robin Sharma

  Matter, Improvement, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 22, 2010

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• We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by hair- their fears and insecurities. As a result God change them and use them to accomplish some mind-boggling things. Why couldn't God - why wouldn't God do the same in your life?

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Men, Hair

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• The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

  Mark Nepo

  Waiting, Skins, Ordinary

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.24, Conari Press

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• From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE

  Jim Rohn

  Design, Information, Enough

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• At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

  Doug Scott

  Climbing, Self, Ordinary

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• The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

  Wendell Berry

  Distance, Wine, Air

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• The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.

  David Malouf

  Nature, Night, Smell

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House

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