Best Ordinary Life Lines
161 Ordinary Life quotes by 141 unique authors
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I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned…
— Cameron Dokey
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I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more…
— Anais Nin
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Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid…
— Frances Hardinge
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It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the…
— Alain de Botton
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
— Colum McCann
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Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep,…
— Rajneesh
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In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in…
— Robert Bly
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I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
— Tracy Chapman
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I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
— Bryan Magee
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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and…
— Michael Sandel
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes…
— Ian Anderson
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All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
— Christopher Koch
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for…
— Garry Hynes
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In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that…
— John Mackey
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Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary…
— Roland Allen
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I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
— Sidney Poitier
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When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing…
— Andrew O'Hagan
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Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd: Only if you…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Once in awhile, Right in the middle of an ordinary life, Love gives us a fairy tale.
— Superman
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The purpose of life is to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner.
— Vikrant Parsai
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Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, Love will give us a fairytale...
— Brittany
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I have never settled for the notion of being an ordinary person living an ordinary life. I have always believed in and seen something more…
— Trinity Chasara
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So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life-your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before…
— Unknown Author
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