Ordinary Quotes

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

I never promised you a rose garden.

Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

Nothing extraordinary is achieved through ordinary means.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded and true to myself. My family really helps me with that.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.