Ordinary Quotes · Page 45

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were…

— Dalai Lama

A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and…

— Charles Simic

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

— Jamake Highwater

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who…

— Kathleen Norris

What I think the appeal of the [Donald] Trump program has been is that it offers some kind of concrete, specific, historically…

— Judy Woodruff

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

— Erich Fromm

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with…

— Patricia Hewitt

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

— Mariel Hemingway

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

— Norman Spinrad

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective…

— Giles Foden

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent…

— Geraldine Brooks

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work,…

— Peter Drucker

Love and war do not follow the ordinary rules of life.

— Vikrant Parsai

I just want to be treated like an ordinary legend.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

— Roz Savage

I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.

— Ken Loach

As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Find joy in the ordinary.

— Max Lucado

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the…

— George Orwell

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing…

— Taylor Sheridan

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their…

— Francis Spufford

And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By…

— P. J. O'Rourke

She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for…

— Gail Levin

The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle