Ordinary Quotes

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

[Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.

He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

In love the ordinary is made sacred.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.