Ordinary Quotes
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.
The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.
I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.
I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.
A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.
It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days.
Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.
None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life
The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.
It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.
Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.