Ordinary Quotes

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

Ordinary people can bring about change.

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

The ordinary is the divine.

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving.

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.