Ordinary Lives Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.…
— Pema Chodron
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American…
— Sherman Alexie
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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
— Wilferd Peterson
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There are no ordinary lives.
— Ken Burns
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early…
— Russell Banks
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Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are…
— Henri Nouwen
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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
— Doris Lessing
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
— George Will
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I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
— Thomas Merton
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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and…
— Stephen King
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[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their…
— Brennan Manning
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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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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration…
— John Updike
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Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
— Buzz Aldrin
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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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Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks…
— Nicholas Gordon
Who Wrote These Ordinary Lives Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Ordinary Lives Quotes as follows: