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Ordinary Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere…
- When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I…
- All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
- The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the…
- The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an…
- Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on…
- Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
- Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously…
- It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth…
- He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It…
- The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
More Ordinary Quotes
- A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him… — Irving Babbitt
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Warren G. Bennis
- The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein
- Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the… — Tony Blair
- If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than… — Michael Bloomberg
- The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. — Robert Bresson
- I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance… — Andre Breton
- September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks