Ordinary Quotes · Page 32

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

— Pema Chodron

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage.

— Enoch L. Johnson

A change is brought because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

— Barack Obama

“The human body is the most ordinary of things, yet also the most extraordinary.”

— Will Forest

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

— Phil Cousineau

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

— John Fowles

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

— Alfred Marshall

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was…

— Alex Flinn

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.

— George Harrison

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

— Peter Ackroyd

There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers.

— Ted Cassidy

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed…

— Anne Lamott

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me,…

— Peter Straub

If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting…

— Avi Lewis

Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that…

— Joel Greenblatt

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying…

— Sophie Okonedo

The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but,…

— Morris Berman

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due…

— Kiefer Sutherland

It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet…

— Frances Osborne

Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as…

— Nora Waln

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness…

— Khaled Hosseini

We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find…

— George Bernard Shaw

...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain…

— Kristin Cashore

In my [Impossibility] theorem I'm assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer…

— Kenneth Arrow

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but…

— Glenn Greenwald

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make…

— Peter Drucker

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

— Thomas Merton

“Eventually what was the superhuman becomes the common, the ordinary, the mundane.”

— Stephen Richards

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

— Paula Cole

“Ordinary people with commitments can make an extraordinary impact in their world”

— John Maxwell Hamilton

“When the extraordinary becomes ordinary it is time to move on.”

— Derek Darke

“Sometimes that which seems ordinary is really most extraordinary of all.”

— M.P. Kozlowsky

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.

— Sherilyn Fenn

“Greatness is the born of ordinary men who decided to work extraordinarily hard.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough