Ordinary Quotes

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Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about… — Greta Garbo
A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet… — H. L. Mencken
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people… — Zhuangzi
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would… — Jim Elliot
He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is… — Nathaniel Chapman
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. — Israel Albert Horowitz
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces… — Russell Hoban
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to… — Edmund Burke
There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker
From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a… — Jules Verne
The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are… — Laozi
The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have… — Laozi
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. — Christopher Lasch
Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. — Mark Haddon
If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. — Unknown Author
We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was… — Ben Shahn
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve… — James Nachtwey
Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment… — Leonard Jacobson
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at… — Jane Rule
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and… — Huston Smith
Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary. — Pema Chodron
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged… — Alexander Fleming
Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it uses methods other… — Silvano Arieti
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in… — Paul Ricoeur
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am… — Michel de Montaigne

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