Ordinary Quotes

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It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education… — Bertrand Russell
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because… — Ronald Blythe
I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you… — Neil Kinnock
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our… — Michel de Montaigne
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. — Patricia Stephens Due
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,… — George Orwell
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters. — George Santayana
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is… — Dee Snider
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation… — Joseph Conrad
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them… — Alfred Hitchcock
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not… — Edmund Burke
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we… — Stephen Covey
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste,… — Augustine Birrell
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness. — Edmund Wilson
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to.… — Harrison Ford
I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe… — Fred Couples
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as… — Thomas Merton
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. — E. Stanley Jones
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want… — Khaled Hosseini
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built… — Oswald Chambers

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