Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

There are no ordinary cats.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

There are no ordinary lives.

There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms is the sambhogakaya that can only be visited by highly realized Bodhisattvas. In the pure realm of the sambhogakaya, the Dharma is continuously taught. One sambhogakaya realm is Tushita, which is presided over by the next Buddha, the Maitreya Buddha. Buddha Shakyamuni dwelled there before coming to earth to give Dharma teachings.

There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government.

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

(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 taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.