Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't understand what makes them come out like that!" "Hunger," said Jem. "Were you think about blood?" "No." "Were you thinking about eating me?" Will inquired. "No!" "No one would blame you," said Jem. "He's very annoying.

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

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

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

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

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.

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

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me... and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different... and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.