Ordinary Things Quotes
83 quotes by 72 authors
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Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
— Mother Teresa
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Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.
— Pope Francis
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The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language…
— Graham Swift
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Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a…
— Michael Cisco
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We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
— Marc Newson
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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
— Thomas Merton
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The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in…
— Oswald Chambers
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
— Jim Valvano
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest…
— Michel de Montaigne
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
— Viola Davis
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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
— Emily Carr
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I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and…
— Jonathan Stroud
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I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina…
— Andy Warhol
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What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary…
— Garrison Keillor
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
— Eric Rohmer
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The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you…
— Mia Love
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The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning…
— Allan Kaprow
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By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time…
— Lynda Barry
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