Ordinary Quotes

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Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to… — Novalis
I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid… — Ellsworth Kelly
Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure… — Werner Erhard
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. — J L Austin
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I… — Stanley Spencer
If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you… — Jacque Fresco
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. — Benazir Bhutto
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of… — Michel Houellebecq
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions… — C. Wright Mills
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know… — C. Wright Mills
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere — Andy Hertzfeld
We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a… — Catherine Doherty
Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts. — Ralph Goodale
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress. — Bill W.
We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me. — Thuli Madonsela
Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves. — Maynard Amerine
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported… — Laura Miller
Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. — Morley Baer
Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. — Carl Bernstein
We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary. — Andy Puddicombe
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. — Martha Reeves
Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little… — Winkie Pratney
There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt. — Paul Westhead
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their… — George Parsons Lathrop

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