Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the non-existent, non-realizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared to a Utopia, will pale in comparison. But for the ordinary person, capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any system yet devised to deal with our everyday needs and desires.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that you've never been to before, then finding your way through. That's the type of trip that excites me.

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

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.

Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

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

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results.

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

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

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

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

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

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

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

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.