Extraordinary People Quotes Quotes & Sayings

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Because leaders and influential people are just as human as any other person, they sometimes forget that by doing little extra things to become extraordinary means they no longer have a completely private life. You must be willing to pay this price because if you don't, the consequences can be more disastrous. Learn to plan and be deliberate in also ensuring you and your family can still enjoy quality private moments. — Archibald Marwizi

You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent. — Mark LaMoure

It takes extraordinary mental discipline to transmit human experience without perversion. Truth telling is unnatural. Lying is an important aspect of humanity. We lie to other people to prevent hurt feelings and we deceive ourselves in order to protect our noble sense of being a good person. Dishonesty and inaccuracy preserves our quest seeking uninterrupted personal pleasure. I shall eschew pleasure seeking and cultivate precision of mind and moral character that precious truth telling necessitates. Reading and writing, along with observing nature and studious reflection on vivid personal experiences is the process methodology that will bring me closest to discovering inviolate verity of existence and becoming a doyen for all the immaculate truth, beauty, and goodness in this world. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this. — Richelle E. Goodrich

5. Knock, knock. Who's there? To. To who? No, to whom. — Anonymous

But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight
And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart. — E. E. Cummings

When you look at extraordinary people look for scars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing. — Jon Spaihts

The strong overcome several trials.
The determined overcome numerous trials.
The resilient overcome many trials.
The extraordinary overcome countless trials. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

How many kinds of weirdos are there? She doesn't laugh. Lots. And the worst are the ones you don't suspect. They're the ones you invite inside your front door. — Ellen Hopkins

Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath. — John Waite

We can learn so much about the living, according to how they treat their dead. And we can see the true colours of people coming out, when we observe how they act and react, to the circumstances that come about after the death of a loved one. Lastly, we learn about the things most important in our lives, when we experience the loss called death. It is extraordinary how death can give back so much to life and to the living. — C. JoyBell C.

I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip and look through the eyes of someone from a different culture and see what they saw. I wanted to meet people who didn't crush the can of what they just drank on their forehead.-Rebecca Meyer, Crooked Lines — Holly Michael

For many men the moment of violent connection may be the only intimacy, the only attainable closeness, the only space where the agony is released. — Bell Hooks

If you dance with the devil, then you haven't got a clue, for you think you'll change the devil, but the devil changes you. — J.M. Smith

Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary. — C. JoyBell C.

I've only ever met two people who sensed the true nature of my soul and, at least a little bit, were able to understand who I really am. They're both extraordinary individuals, and their emotional support at particular times of my life played major roles in my ability to survive those hard times. That's why they are undoubtedly special to me, and always will be. — Sahara Sanders

A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story.
Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like may be he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like may be everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending. — Jodi Picoult

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. — Thomas Hardy

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking. — Yolanda Adams

Average people focus on the storm;
extraordinary people look forward to the rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He imagined the future I could have before I even wanted it for myself, and he was the one to push me toward it. That's faith. Growing up, I thought faith was about believing Jesus died for us, and that if I held on to that, I'd get to meet him when I died too. But faith doesn't mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don't, and not giving up until you see it too. I want that. I miss that. — Jessica Knoll

Nothing could be kept, he thought, everything ran through one's fingers like sand or water. Or time. Perhaps nothing should be kept. A monkish thought that he dismissed. — Kate Atkinson