Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary. — Linji Yixuan Copy Share Image
There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt. — Paul Westhead Copy Share Image
The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day. — Lew Welch Copy Share Image
The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“replacing a casual aquaintance with an ordinary daughter does not make a son.” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If I am traveling to remote places, I carry an ordinary phone because sometimes there's no option. — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . . — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much. — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies. — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
“She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not because there is anything hideous or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful aspects of service - being different. What is WOW? WOW! is great service! WOW! separates the EXTRAordinary… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
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… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things. — Vincent McNabb Copy Share Image
Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
