“The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
“Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness:… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Each woman's story, Edith's especially but Rose's too, is a kind of English story told over and over in fiction and film… — Christopher Hilliard Copy Share Image
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, small minds seem to take the day. Election fraud. A migratory plague. Less and less surprises us as odd.” — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise… — Ted Loder Copy Share Image
So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that I love your ordinariness, because I, too, am ordinary. The truth is, we are all ordinary.… — Haemin Sunim Copy Share Image
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with. — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
“Simple things are found in ordinariness - but extraordinary things live inside things that are loved.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Yet he was still out there blending in, a man whose ordinariness was his mask.” — Michelle McNamara Copy Share Image
I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
