Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907–2001) British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister
Quintin Hogg, The Case for Conservatism (Penguin, 1947), p. 10.
Variant: It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907–2001) British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister
Quintin Hogg, The Case for Conservatism (Penguin, 1947), p. 10.
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Variant: simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".
Source: The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
This has sometimes been paraphrased: "The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 15.
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Being Peace
“The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) French writer
A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)
“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Variant: Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
Source: The Lucky One
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Elizabeth Green, Chapter 15, Beth, p. 274
Variant: Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)
Source: 2000s, The Lucky One (2008)
David Myatt (1950) British writer
Source: Myatt, David. Myngath - Some Recollections of the Wyrdful Life of David Myatt, CreateSpace, 2013, ISBN 978-1484110744