Ordinary Lives Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

• 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
• 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
• Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. — Wilferd Peterson
• There are no ordinary lives. — Ken Burns
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. — George Will
• 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
• 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
• [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
• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. — Tracy Chapman
• 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
• Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. — Buzz Aldrin
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Pema Chodron
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Sherman Alexie
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Wilferd Peterson
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Ken Burns
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Russell Banks
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Henri Nouwen
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Doris Lessing
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by George Will
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Thomas Merton
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Stephen King
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Brennan Manning
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Tracy Chapman
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by John Updike
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Buzz Aldrin
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
• 1 Ordinary Lives Quote by Nicholas Gordon