Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

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

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

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

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 typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

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

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 truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

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.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

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.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism