Ordinary Quotes · Page 10

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with…

— Selma Fraiberg

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental…

— Sri Aurobindo

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

I think the most ordinary romance is showing your partner the way you are and leaving behind the things that we cannot…

— Gong Hyo-jin

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it…

— Jeremy Taylor

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain,…

— James Stewart

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the…

— John Podhoretz

I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to…

— Miep Gies

There's this theme throughout my life of Diana cropping up. It doesn't feel ordinary.

— Emma Corrin

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself…

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left…

— Malcolm Wallop

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

— Alveda King

I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to…

— Dean Karnazes

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life…

— Virginia Postrel

My drum set up never gets that crazy or out of the ordinary.

— Josh Freese

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people…

— Ahmet Davutoglu

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

— Shahrukh Khan

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer,…

— Frank P. Ramsey

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their…

— Wayne Dyer

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

— Frank McKinney