Extraordinary Events Quotes

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

Comets, earthquakes, volcanoes, and northern lights (in the night,) with many other extraordinary phenomena or appearances intimidate weak minds, and are by them thought to be miraculous, although they undoubtedly have their proper natural causes.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous, and ought reasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind.

Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

For 'Portillo's Hidden History of Britain,' I arranged to meet men and women who were witnesses to history - ordinary people who were caught up in extraordinary events.

Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature