Ordinary Quotes · Page 53

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

— John Dall

'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

— Joe Dempsie

The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of…

— Sarada Devi

[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation…

— Stephen Jay Gould

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

— Helen Clark

You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular…

— Josemaria Escriva

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

— J. Vernon McGee

She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together…

— Anonymous

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

— David Levithan

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of…

— Thomas Sowell

Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would…

— Andrew Sean Greer

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Martin Luther

Many ordinary Americans make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity…

— Rush Limbaugh

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black,…

— Tyler Perry

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the…

— William Feather

In love the ordinary is made sacred.

— Arthur Dobrin

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to…

— Bonnie Raitt

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

— Ray Johnson

Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s…

— Richard Ramirez

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

— Thomas Adcock