Ordinary Quotes

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To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears.… — Rajneesh
Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only… — Rajneesh
I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero… — Miep Gies
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary… — John Dalton
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt
Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment… — Forrest Church
Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for… — Neal A. Maxwell
These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature,… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination. — Unknown Author
To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up… — Juan Cole
The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons.… — Fritz Zwicky
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve… — Heinrich Himmler
Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a… — Heinrich Himmler
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of… — Paul Hawken
If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick a date. Let's… — Bill Murray
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms… — Thrangu Rinpoche
Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. — Charles Lindbergh
Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved. — Unknown Author
[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000… — Francis William Aston
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary… — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws. — Rudolf Virchow
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking… — Frederic Joliot-Curie

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