Ordinary Quotes

2227 Ordinary quotes by 1506 unique authors

These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to… — Simon Greenleaf
This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our… — Joseph Stalin
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. — Kenneth Koch
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. — C.S. Lewis
While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance. — Thomas Merton
The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our… — Starhawk
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. — Alfred North Whitehead
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. — William Wordsworth
Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen… — Bent Larsen
When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when… — Rajneesh
Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. — Dewitt Jones
All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin -… — Rajneesh
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you… — Nursultan Nazarbayev
Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary. — Joyce Meyer
What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every expression they make… — Stefanie Schneider
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these… — George Henry Lewes
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the… — Ernest Kurtz
There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale… — Jodi Picoult
There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary. — Ming-Dao Deng
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is… — Bertrand Russell
The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like… — Kristin Hannah
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs.… — Pema Chodron
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural… — Henry David Thoreau
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still… — Nigel Farage
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values.… — Peter Drucker

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