Ordinary Quotes · Page 57

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of…

— Sun Tzu

“Extraordinary wonder and joy are woven through ordinary life. Hunt for them relentlessly.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

— Charles C. Mann

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

— Anonymous

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.

— Danny Boyle

Before I met you. I thought you are so special to me. But now, after I got you...you're just ordinary.

— Anonymous

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the…

— Susan Orlean

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life.…

— John Mackey

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It…

— Nick Clegg

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white folks for two contradictory reasons. First, he constantly proclaims his belief in…

— Steve Sailer

“Rituals are the architects of belonging. They take the ordinary and transform it into something meaningful. A morning cup of tea becomes…

— Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical…

— Werner Heisenberg

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the…

— Milan Kundera

Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the…

— Lara Giddings

We have to be very clear about what we're doing to our music. We're giving away free albums. Now think about the…

— David Banner

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it…

— J. L. Austin

This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of…

— Hannah Arendt

“The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an…

— Thomas S. Monson

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise…

— Wendell Berry

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way…

— Sharon Olds

[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help…

— Martin Luther

You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow.…

— Eugen Herrigel

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

— Robin Sharma

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

— Deepak Chopra

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

— Plato

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked…

— Greta Garbo

He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.

— Amanda Hocking

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

— Veronique Vienne

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

— Phil Gramm

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

— Harold Jeffreys

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and…

— Jim Rohn

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

— Edmund Wilson

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to…

— Woodrow Wilson

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

— Frank McCourt