Ordinary Quotes

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We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out… — Shirley Williams
Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other… — Joe Shuster
The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they… — Edward Witten
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is,… — G. H. Hardy
Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience. — Laozi
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the… — Walter Moers
He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged… — Gregory Maguire
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and… — Don DeLillo
There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple… — John Galsworthy
From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too -… — Barack Obama
God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people. — Ray Stedman
I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given… — Melita Norwood
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,… — Alexander Hamilton
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the… — Eisaku Sato
The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for… — Stanley Baldwin
I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk… — Vincent de Paul
... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of… — Iris Murdoch
This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they are most… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are… — Carl Sagan
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or… — Dean Koontz
You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary. — Michael J. Fox
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. — Bum Phillips
When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time. — Jamie Cullum
We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes,… — Margot Adler

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