Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!

Ordinary people can bring about change.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Ordinary won't change the world.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.”  Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.