Ordinary Quotes
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.
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.
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.
God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.
Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.
When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .
They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.