Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.

The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.

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.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

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

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 ordinary cats.

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 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.

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 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.

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

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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

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 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'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.