#extraordinary

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve. ↗

— Jack Reed

#country #crisis #extraordinary #iraq #men

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#century #extraordinary #half #half century #incredible

...if you live with your conscience and follow your instincts, you can get through with inner peace. ↗

— Noor Al Hussein

#what-i-know-now #inner-peace

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#extraordinary #future #none #populations #projects

There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#believe #daily #events #extraordinary #fits

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#become #being #besides #consider #extraordinary

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. ↗

— Donna Summer

#did #extraordinary #extraordinary things #i #just

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#action #appealing #big #charge #draws

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#importance #life

It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own. ↗

— Cocteau

#humor #people #humor