When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach. — Frank McKinney Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts. — Ralph Goodale Copy Share Image
The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which. — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever… — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world,… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be… — Eric Linklater Copy Share Image
I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image