Ordinary Quotes

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Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that… — William Stringfellow
Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an… — Kevin Keegan
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link… — Joe Slovo
Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their… — Stephen Harper
I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a… — Stephen Harper
Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates. — Brian Tracy
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to… — John Jay Hooker
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters… — Natalie Goldberg
Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the… — Carl Theodor Dreyer
I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together. — Sebastian Vettel
Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who… — David Tudor
I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me… — Jasper Johns
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place,… — Phil Cousineau
Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation solved a key… — Dave Morin
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. — Trent Parke
Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life. — Brian Andreas
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. — Shane Claiborne
Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning… — Eugene H. Peterson
God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra… — Joel Osteen
That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of… — Margaret Thatcher
People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads… — Robert Crais
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! — Richard P. Feynman
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they… — Steve Sailer
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the… — August Kleinzahler
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each… — Joseph Roth

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