Ordinary Quotes · Page 39

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

— William Halsey

There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a…

— Jeremiah P. Ostriker

What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

— Jamake Highwater

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

— Paulo Coelho

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that…

— Frances O'Grady

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

— Chuck Noll

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

— Robert Bly

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning…

— William Ames

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair,…

— Virginia Woolf

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling…

— Thomas Brooks

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll…

— Claude Monet

You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather…

— David Crystal

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be…

— David Eddings

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that…

— Charles Dickens

The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools…

— Anonymous

There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One…

— Thrangu Rinpoche

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they…

— Jodi Picoult

There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may…

— Josiah Wedgwood

I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I…

— Thomas Merton

Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of…

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

I would go to trials a lot in Boston, as best I could. And it's incredible that, like, lawyers that had a…

— Judd Nelson

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

— Gore Vidal

“ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation.”

— Sherif Girgis

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

— Eve Ensler

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

— Benazir Bhutto

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

— Anonymous

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the…

— Marc Andreessen

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can…

— William Zinsser

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

— John le Carre

I think the most ordinary romance is showing your partner the way you are and leaving behind the things that we cannot…

— Gong Hyo-jin

People like you to be ordinary, but they prefer you if you're extraordinary. They want you to be a star.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

— Graham Swift

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary…

— Carl Sagan

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

— Edward Abbey

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of…

— Doug Scott

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

— Anonymous

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the…

— Alex Jones