Ordinary Quotes · Page 46

“Sometimes the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary by doing them with the right people.”

— Faraaz Kazi

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things…

— Carlos Beltran

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other…

— Howard G. Hendricks

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

— Charles Krauthammer

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in…

— Francis Galton

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

— Oprah Winfrey

Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

— Barton Gellman

I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than…

— John Peterman

Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten…

— Anthony Trollope

But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated…

— John T. Flynn

Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to…

— Martin Luther

An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may…

— Sharon Salzberg

I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to…

— Dean Karnazes

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't…

— Margot Kidder

Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than…

— William Cullen Bryant

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats…

— Franz Kafka

Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears,…

— Haruki Murakami

People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student…

— Bernie Sanders

If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned…

— Don DeLillo

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of…

— Kevin Hart

There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one…

— Libba Bray

It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and…

— J. William Fulbright

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

“He’d never thought of death like that, like it’s some sort of other life that you can hope for, dream of. Escape…

— M.C. Frank

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

— Idries Shah

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

— Taylor Sheridan

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— Horace

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

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Mary McCarthy

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

— Anonymous

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

— Eddi Reader

It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

— Ryan Seacrest

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

— Gloria Steinem