Ordinary Quotes

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.

I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

I went to boarding school and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life!

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.