“There's nothing ordinary about you. Nothing ordinary at all.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“You have to risk the ordinary to reach for the extraordinary.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“At what point does another person's extraordinary become your ordinary?” — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary. — Thomas Leonard Copy Share Image
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done. — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — John Dall Copy Share Image
“Problems arise from the most ordinary of all circumstances, and in a world such as we live in, these problems are generally… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them. — Jane Clayson Copy Share Image
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. — Jimmy Johnson Copy Share Image
