Ordinary Quotes

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

Consciously cultivate the ordinary.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.

The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.