Ordinary Quotes · Page 40

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary…

— Hassan Blasim

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of…

— Alexander Hamilton

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

— Peter Senge

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

— Thomas Merton

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

— Michael Gerber

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

— Anonymous

When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn't an ordinary place…

— Homer Hickam

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that…

— Roger Scruton

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other…

— Margaret Mahy

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you…

— Robert Collier

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone…

— Frank Wilczek

Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so…

— Elfriede Jelinek

The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream…

— Harriet Quimby

Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did…

— Enid Blyton

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one…

— Simone Weil

I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating…

— Graham Greene

The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side…

— Molly Crabapple

It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,…

— Mark Doty

I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick,…

— Franny Billingsley

A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything…

— Henry Miller

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own…

— Caroline Myss

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you,…

— Ellen Hopkins

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

— T. S. Eliot

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

— Sonia Sotomayor

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

— Gautama Buddha

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

— William Arthur Ward

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to…

— Andy Warhol

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere…

— Horace

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a…

— Mary McCarthy

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

— Kenneth Branagh

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

— Eddi Reader

The only difference between living an extraordinary life and an ordinary one, is your willingness to do the extra in everything you…

— Anonymous

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance...

— Nichiren

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

— Anonymous

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

— Leo Tolstoy