Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us say, a Catholicism of O'Connor's "Great Hurrah." Now there are types of Catholicism like that but this doesn't - this doesn't do justice to the genuine relation that Catholicism has had to Democratic Society.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.

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

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Ordinary won't change the world.

Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

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.

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.

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.