Ordinary Quotes
There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.
If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.
Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!
When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.
Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.
What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.
