Ordinary Quotes · Page 55

I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown…

— Francis Chan

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

— Alice Paul

The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder…

— Shmuley Boteach

But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint…

— Lee Kuan Yew

[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller…

— Chris Pine

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention…

— George Orwell

An 'Ordinary Woman' is the beautiful and achingly poignant portrait of Gwen, a complex and troubled woman in her middle years.

— Sarah Lancashire

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,…

— Walter Savage Landor

My father knows more about sports than any human being out there. He relaxes. The ribbing that we give each at the…

— Donald Trump, Jr

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high…

— Alexander Hamilton

To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited…

— Anonymous

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot…

— Sherman Alexie

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over.…

— Margaret Mahy

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a…

— Walter Moers

Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak; because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose;…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people…

— Louis Auchincloss

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

— Bear Grylls

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

— Anonymous

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

— Russell M. Nelson

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have…

— John Lennon

We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of…

— Kenji Miyazawa

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish…

— Anonymous

For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is…

— Thomas Hobbes

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

— Oliver Herford