Extraordinary Quotes - Page 27

• Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

  Geoff Mulgan

  People, Tasks, Needs

  "The UK economy can still create jobs" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2012.

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• I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

  Samuel Beckett

  Records, Delirium, Form

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.250, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Purple, Oil, White

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

  J. K. Rowling

  Imagination, World, Witch

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• The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Lying

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• My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Sweet, Nice

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.21, Heinemann

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• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cake, Missing, Tea

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.402, Courier Dover Publications

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• It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

  Tove Jansson

  Ordinary, Looks, Top Hats

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Finn Family Moomintroll”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

  Lewis Carroll

  Extraordinary Things, Seems

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• The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Usual, Ordinary

  "Reverence for Life".

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• To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Wise, Time

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• Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

  David Sedaris

  Relationship, Sex, Passion

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Important, Ordinary

  Charles Dickens: The Last of the Great Men ch. 1 (1906)

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• Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Unique, Self, Natural

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.

  Samantha Hunt

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  Samantha Hunt (2009). “The Invention of Everything Else”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

  Louise Brooks

  Real, Writing, Blow

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• How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

  Erwin McManus

  Christian, Unique, Focus

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.65, Thomas Nelson

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• What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

  Virginia Woolf

  Excitement, Mrs Dalloway, Said

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

  Fiona Apple

  Mean, Machines, Be Kind

  Song: Extraordinary Machine, Album: Extraordinary Machine, 2005

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• Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.

  Brigham Young

  Miracle, Saint, Fear Of Love

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”

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• There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Home, People, Ordinary

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