Ordinary Human Quotes

42 quotes by 37 authors

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in… — Nick Cave
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. — Carl Sagan
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt
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
There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned… — Desmond Tutu
Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals. — Paulo Coelho
This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling — Richard Chartres
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice… — Roger Ebert
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child. — Edward Abbey
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and… — John le Carre
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of… — Michel Houellebecq
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings… — Peter Drucker
We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness. — Sarada Devi
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! — Lionel Blue
When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your… — Rajneesh
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up… — Albert Schweitzer
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. — Nelson Mandela

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