Ordinary Quotes · Page 66

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I can't explain my popularity. I suppose I'm just an ordinary bloke, and a lot of people see a little bit of…

— Eddie the Eagle

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the…

— Abigail Tarttelin

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

— Jeremy Corbyn

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men…

— Carl Jung

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary…

— Yoshida Shoin

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

— E. Stanley Jones

I think I was a pretty ordinary teenager, boring, just played video games with my mates and went to the pub, stuff…

— James Buckley

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

There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The…

— Gustave Eiffel

“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

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

— Steve Sailer

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

— Milan Kundera

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

— Werner Heisenberg

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

Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of…

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

I would go to trials a lot in Boston, as best I could. And it's incredible that, like, lawyers that had a…

— Judd Nelson

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one…

— Simone Weil

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some…

— Oswald Chambers

Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges…

— James Fallows

Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed. "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs." "Really?" "Oh, yes."…

— Derek Landy

I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they…

— Benjamin Franklin

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to…

— Andy Warhol

“Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.”

— Cassandra Clare

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by…

— Joseph Addison

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my…

— Yousuf Karsh

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being…

— Brene Brown

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things…

— Paul David Tripp

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave…

— Sally Mann

It is that little extra effort sparked by sincerity in the heart..that makes your ordinary self extraordinary.

— Ritu Ghatourey

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most…

— Henry David Thoreau

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

— Edward Snowden

“But for the rest of the world, this was just an ordinary day. Or maybe it was even a good day.”

— R.J. Palacio

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”

— Leigh Bardugo

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary…

— George Santayana