#ordinary

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Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.


David Walliams


#been #extraordinary #feel #god #happy

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.


Mercy Otis Warren


#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.


George Whitefield


#divers #extraordinary #ghost #holy #holy ghost

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.


Robert Anton Wilson


#earth #fables #miracles #more #nobody

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.


Edward Witten


#beyond #blocks #building #building blocks #equipment

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.


Edward Witten


#better #black #black holes #field #holes

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.


James Wolcott


#could #david #everyone #extraordinary #figure

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.


Virginia Woolf


#amazingly #meaning #ordinary #out #satisfies

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.


Alexander Woollcott


#calm #english #extraordinary #flying #great

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.


Ron Wyden


#guard #national #national guard #ones #only