Ordinary Quotes · Page 132

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.…

— Stanley Milgram

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song'…

— Kenny G

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

— Edith Sitwell

The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special.…

— Lisa Kleypas

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of…

— Aldous Huxley

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

— Rebecca Solnit

We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens…

— Regina Brett

I gained my inspiration from former U.S. president Barack Obama, because he tries to do things differently, things which other people do…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

— Anita Shreve

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

— Sam Harris

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

— Buzz Aldrin

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

— Scilla Elworthy

...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact…

— Anonymous

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

— Walter Savage Landor

What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the…

— Doris Lessing

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt…

— Julia Cameron

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger…

— Joseph Stalin

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

— Lou Holtz

My life certainly hasn't been ordinary: different is the word. It hasn't always been stable - except in the important things which…

— River Phoenix

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

— Dag Hammarskjold

In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open…

— E. Stanley Jones

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple…

— D. H. Lawrence