Ordinarily Quotes
114 Ordinarily quotes by 99 unique authors
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Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough,…
— Danilo Kis
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One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I…
— J. Reuben Clark
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But ordinarily you think otherwise: you think if you are silent you will be sad. Ordinarily you think, how can you avoid sadness if you…
— Rajneesh
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Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
— Michael Schudson
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Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to…
— Steven Furtick
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Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
— Dorothy Day
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It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work…
— Thomas Huxley
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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever…
— Mary Oliver
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I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then…
— Paula Vogel
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Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy…
— Vincent de Paul
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It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says;…
— Vincent de Paul
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You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things,…
— Heather O'Neill
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Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person’s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for…
— Werner Erhard
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Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain…
— Benjamin Graham
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All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what…
— Jay Michaelson
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Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it…
— Walter Lippmann
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We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it…
— Marcel Proust
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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
— Ernst Mach
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I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are…
— Geoffrey Fisher
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Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150…
— Frank Woolley
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The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what…
— Zhang Ziyi
Who Wrote These Ordinarily Quotes
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