Top 1200 Extraordinary Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.

It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.

I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

The potential for cognitive and related technologies to help us pursue new business offerings is extraordinary.

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.

These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

There are some very creative people out there who are like Steven Meisel, and that is why their work is so extraordinary.

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

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Any side that wins 21 out of 22 rounds is clearly doing something extraordinary.

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

There are no ordinary moments.

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it.

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

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

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

I'll forever be grateful to NPR that they gave me such extraordinary freedom... It was 37 years of a fond relationship.

I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available.

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

At moments we are all artists.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

I am excited by the opportunity to join such an extraordinary group of athletes and be a part of the 'Lucha Underground' family.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary But don't count on it.

I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.