After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change. — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles.… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
“They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
“Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important thing that will happen to you will often come as… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I believe that the president should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office. This is… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Ordinary love, anonymous and unnoticed as it is, is the substance of peace on earth, the currency of God's grace in our… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special. — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality. — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day… — Nick Burd Copy Share Image
Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts. — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image