Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results.

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.