Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Gervais

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Brian Jacques

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Desiree Rogers

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

Dean Koontz

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Charles Kuralt

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Edmund Burke

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Ben Sherwood

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

Austin O'Malley

Most mysteries are soluble in time.

Bryan Magee

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

Demetri Martin

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

William Galston

The poor don't need their consciousness raised as to what a good life looks like,

Jesse Jackson

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Elon Musk

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Phil Bredesen

We did not even have a 30-day notice to prepare ourselves so that we could at least have a supply of medications while we tried to figure out what to do next, ... How can you in all good consciousness tolerate this kind of a practice?

Jay Lefkowitz

We spoke about the importance of raising international consciousness on the issue of human rights in North Korea and the terrible deprivation of human rights by that regime.

Eckhart Tolle

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

Eckhart Tolle

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

Eckhart Tolle

What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.