Ordinary Quotes
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.
It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.
He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.
The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.
Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
