Ordinary Quotes

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Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I… — Robert Fulghum
Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of… — J R Ward
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and… — Alexander Graham Bell
Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living. — Elisabeth Elliot
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary… — Garrison Keillor
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish,… — Robert Collier
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true… — Zhuangzi
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. — Walker Percy
Consciously cultivate the ordinary. — Walker Percy
I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary? — Joan Clarke
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary… — Pablo Casals
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. — Michel de Montaigne
Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life. — Judith Viorst
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is… — Mark Twain
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.… — Oscar Wilde
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. — Sinclair Lewis
Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in… — Alexander Graham Bell
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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