Ordinary Quotes

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Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness. — Sarada Devi
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as… — Adam Weishaupt
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years,… — Steve Buyer
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about… — Edward Witten
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! — Lionel Blue
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close,… — Nichiren
No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to… — Unknown Author
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language,… — Paul Valery
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written… — Alfred North Whitehead
Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather… — Laozi
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into… — Winston Churchill
Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about… — Oswald Chambers
When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your… — Rajneesh
Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. — C.S. Lewis
In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or… — Og Mandino
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no… — Robert C. Solomon
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. — Elon Musk
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises… — Thomas A. Edison
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen… — Marlon Brando
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic… — Aslan Maskhadov
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in… — George Bernard Shaw
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person… — Susan Sontag
Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. — Wilferd Peterson

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