A Quote by Irena Sendler

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Irena Sendler

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Irena Sendler
Polish - Activist
February 15, 1910 - May 12, 2008

you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

Elfriede Jelinek

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

C. S. Lewis

Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it.

Rajneesh

In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.

Sarah Churchwell

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Matthew Henry

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

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

Lewis Carroll

There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.

Masha Gessen

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

Dean Stanley

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Dave Winfield

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Warren Buffett

We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

Frederick Lenz

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

Simon Beaufoy

'Celebrity' is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary. That's my opinion. I like to be an artist; I like to do things that are involved in the arts, but I don't think it makes me more special than a doctor, for example. A doctor is an extraordinary person.

Justin Timberlake

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

Luca Parmitano

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