Ordinary Quotes

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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil… — John T. Flynn
The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self… — Shinichi Suzuki
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is… — David F. Wells
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment… — Guy Sajer
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or… — Mary MacLane
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is… — Judith Lewis Herman
It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make… — Alan Brennert
When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of… — Arlene Croce
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design,… — Nan Fairbrother
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on… — Jeff Greenfield
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results. — Hakim Bey
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with… — Machado de Assis
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things — Dee Hock
I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only… — Susan Orlean
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are… — Alain de Botton
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the… — Dalai Lama
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.… — Ransom Riggs
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. — Ransom Riggs
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away — Anne Tyler
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because… — Idries Shah
I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One… — Saul Leiter
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. — Wayne Thiebaud
Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God. — Matt Chandler

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