Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts"… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I… — Zoro Copy Share Image
Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit.… — Linji Yixuan Copy Share Image
Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick,… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Extraordinary wonder and joy are woven through ordinary life. Hunt for them relentlessly.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Before I met you. I thought you are so special to me. But now, after I got you...you're just ordinary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise… — Ray Stedman Copy Share Image
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
