Special Quotes

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.

~ Rksj

Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.

~ Heather O'neill

You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Things do not need especialities to become special, just understand them as special and they will be.

~ Faisal Nawaz Maitlo

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

~ Warren Buffett

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

~ Aristotle

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

~ Ehud Barak

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

~ Marco Rubio

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

~ Sammy Davis

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

~ Albert Schweitzer

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

~ Johnny Mathis

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

~ Julian Fellowes

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

~ Kevin Richardson

I did get a degree in special education.

~ Clay Aiken

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

~ Roberto Cavalli

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

~ Blaise Pascal

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

~ Katharine Lee Bates

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

~ Evelyn Glennie

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

~ Robert Morris

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

~ Joan Jett

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.

~ Donald Bren

It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations.

~ Thom Tillis

I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

~ Alex Trebek

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

~ Ina Garten

I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.

~ Katee Sackhoff

I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

~ Ariana Grande

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

~ David Ben-Gurion

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

~ Catherine Deneuve

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

~ Johan Huizinga

When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.

~ Leon Panetta

I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.

~ Carine Roitfeld

I'm not on a special diet, but I do try to stay away from a lot of fried foods and from a lot of carbs. Yes, I eat a little bit of all of it.

~ Tilman J. Fertitta

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

~ Peter Schuyler

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

~ Bruce Beresford

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

~ Tom Daschle

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

~ John Harwood

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

~ Lewis Mumford

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.

~ Angela Merkel

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

~ Adam Savage