Top 100 Not Special Quotes
#1. Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
Nathan Myhrvold
#2. This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].
LZ Granderson
#3. It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#5. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Chuck Palahniuk
#6. Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Albert Schweitzer
#7. You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
John Green
#8. You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
Alec Sulkin
#9. We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce ... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
Ai-jen Poo
#10. Every inch of land there is so contested," I observed, more to myself than to him. "How many lives have been lost fighting over Jerusalem? Yet it is not special in terms of architecture, or location, or works of art.
Margaret George
#11. Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special - otherwise "special" wouldn't mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, "Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones" - and this is the problem.
Tim Urban
#12. I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.
Marian Keyes
#13. He's not special. He's extraordinary. To me. And I feel like I am, too, when I'm with him.
Amber L. Johnson
#14. I am not special just because I'm famous right now.
Amy Schumer
#15. That was an important thing for me to realize. It's perhaps the best lesson I could have ever taught myself. Getting it would eventually be the one thing that released me from my neuroses and let me be truly happy.
I'm not special.
Ryan O'Connell
#16. Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life." (Wellesly High School commencement speech, "You Are Not Special", 6-12)
Teacher David McCullough
#17. Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.
Esme Raji Codell
#18. You're not special for the pain you've suffered; you're special for what you've done to overcome that pain.
Nicole O'Dell
#19. How many thought does the brain automatically deliver in a single day?"
"Seventy thousand"
"That's right. Do you act on seventy thousand thoughts a day?"
I shake my head.
"Of course you don't. This thought was one in seventy thousand. It's not special
Tamara Ireland Stone
#20. I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what's right for me except me. I'm not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.
Jennifer Hudson
#21. When special becomes everyday its not special anymore.
W.E. Lawrence
#22. This is the idea that has made me ... an anonymous figure in America ... If you have children here tonight ... they are NOT special.
Bill Hicks
#24. One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.
Gretchen Rubin
#25. I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.
Ann Druyan
#26. The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."
Michael Stipe
#27. The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
Paul Wellstone
#28. I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.
Herbie Hancock
#29. Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.
Frederick Lenz
#30. A little voice in the back of my head said, Don't trust him! You're not special! You're weird and awkward and a bigheaded Neanderthal freak with Medusa hair! He's confused you with someone else! Almost immediately, I told that voice to eat shit and die.
Penny Reid
#31. At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
Brendan Myers
#32. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Chuck Palahniuk
#33. Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.
Brian Williams
#34. It is not special to be special, it's special to be ordinary
Shahrukh Khan
#35. I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too ... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.'
Mitch Hedberg
#36. It's special because it's not special, and hence it makes Cohen feel special for choosing it.
Gary Shteyngart
#37. Not special at all." She changed her mind and leaned in to take a cookie. "I just heard my number called and thought I'd better show up.
Brigid Kemmerer
#38. Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
William Lethaby
#39. Will you get over your gigantic ego? Jesus, it's a bigger choking hazard than your cock. You're a man who's had a lot of sex. Of course you're good in bed. but there are others out there who are just as good. You're not special because you know how to give a woman an orgasm." "I
Jordan Marie
#40. Love people with all sincere attention, but don't overdo it as if you are not special. Don't lose yourself in the process of loving other people. Remember, you are special too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.
Madonna Ciccone
#43. I think if we could turn the dial a bit, and try to take what the philosopher Henry Sidgwick called "the point of view of the universe", and look from above, and realize that we are not special, none of us are, I think it would just cause a transformation.
Paul Bloom
#44. Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.
Kim Edwards
#45. Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.
Joseph C Zinker
#46. Noah doesn't hold hands often. In fact, it was one of the few rules I understood, and it's not lost on me how special this moment is. It's like the roses. Noah's showing me his love.
Katie McGarry
#47. When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.
Robin Trower
#48. Never make a person feel, that he/she is very (extra) special.. Cause, then that person starts feeling that 'You' are not worth him/her.
Honeya
#49. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.
Bob Marley
#50. I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.
Kurt Fuller
#51. A man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show all his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is not known to anyone except himself alone.
James Clavell
#52. That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.
Hugh Miller
#53. I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.
Antonio Damasio
#54. I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
Orlando Bloom
#55. I'm not about love, but in this moment, I wish that I were.
Brenna Yovanoff
#56. In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.
Yo-Yo Ma
#57. The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned her about us, the look seemed to say.That we would hurt her, break her as you might break a twig between your fingers. But you, who thought you could not be touched - you are the one who has been broken.
Cassandra Clare
#58. I need a special-shiny-greeny-stone. I have pressed that button many times, but nothing happens.
Button? Don't you mean 'big-red-flat-pressy-thing?
I most certainly do not. It is a button. I named it after my Aunt Button.
Neil Gaiman
#59. Up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous,
J.K. Rowling
#60. All books are hyggelig, but classics written by authors such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy, and Charles Dickens have a special place on the bookshelf. At the right age, your kids may also love to cuddle up with you in the hyggekrog and have you read to them. Probably not Tolstoy.
Meik Wiking
#61. We're here today, gone tomorrow and all we have in between are the little moments we can fill up with life, with love. It's not the big things we do, it's the energy we put into making special moments every day. That's what counts.
Jan Hambright
#62. Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.
Chaim Potok
#63. We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.
Ronald Reagan
#64. Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
Seraphim Rose
#65. Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.
Eric Voegelin
#66. I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#67. The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.
Italo Calvino
#68. There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.
Rider Strong
#69. I'm shocked and appalled that you would dare to suggest I might not be completely original and unique in every way. I'll have you know that I'm a very special snowflake, Ms. Cavanaugh. There's no one like me anywhere in the world. I know, because I checked.
Louisa Edwards
#70. The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents.
Tim Murphy
#71. I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.
Martina Hingis
#72. I very firmly believe that we have to make sure that we enforce our borders, that we have an employment verification system, and that those people who have come here illegally do not get an advantage to become permanent residents, they do not get a special pathway.
Mitt Romney
#73. As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.
Charles Darwin
#74. Kate Moss is small and not necessarily model dimensions but she has that special something.
Nigel Barker
#75. I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.
Anne Graham Lotz
#76. I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together.
Conor Oberst
#77. Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.
Sylvia Earle
#79. To reveal someone's beauty is to reveal their value by giving them time, attention, and tenderness. To love is not just to do something for them but to reveal to them their own uniqueness, to tell them that they are special and worthy of attention.
Jean Vanier
#80. I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.
Akira Kurosawa
#81. I've known a lot of people," Realm said. "Not many friends, though. Guess that happens when you're a liar, huh."
"We're all liars," James replied. "You're not that special.
Suzanne Young
#82. God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment
Sunday Adelaja
#84. Not to psychologize, but it's hard growing up in a family of 14 to ever feel like you're the center of the universe, or that you're that special or different. Because when it comes down to it, you're still fighting for food at the dinner table.
Ronan Farrow
#85. I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.
Luke Ford
#86. It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.
Antonin Scalia
#87. Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
Irving R. Kaufman
#88. She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature
that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.
Christopher Moore
#89. Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.
Mary McAleese
#90. I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.
Scott McCloud
#91. I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
Pablo Picasso
#92. Do not take your lover for granted. Always try and plan surprises, give of your time and of yourself but be grateful for what comes your way and remember how special these gestures make you feel. This will spur you on to continue giving and making your loved one feel valued.
Lyn Hunt
#93. I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia.
Jocelyn Moorhouse
#94. Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell.
I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.
Jim Butcher
#95. The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang - the process, event, or happening that brought the universe into existence - started off the universe in an extraordinarily special, highly ordered state of low entropy.
Brian Greene
#96. He began by talking about daughters and how special they are. How they are different from little boys and need special protection. He told them of his own daughter and the special bond that exists between father and daughter, a bond that could not be explained and should not be tampered with.
John Grisham
#97. I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
Macaulay Culkin
#98. Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are
Chuck Palahniuk
#99. I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.
Cecelia Ahern
#100. Everyone is in a tribe, and the sooner we realize we are not each unique, like a snowflake - a special, one-of-a-kind person, just like Mama said - the sooner we will make sense of ourselves and the spiritual cul-de-sac we call home. You are likely not unique, particularly special,
Mark Driscoll
