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Last updated on November 27, 2024.
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.
I am particularly looking forward to meeting ordinary American people and hearing about their extraordinary lives.
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.
I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny.
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.
If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.
Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Cinema immortalizes ordinary people. Not just the ones we watch on the silver screens, but also the behind the scene heroes.
I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.
Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.
When you've got a team who are making a concerted effort to make a batsman feel uncomfortable it can look pretty ordinary.
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.
I get a lot of comments from people that I'm just an ordinary bloke. They immediately feel they have a closer relationship with you; they relate to you.
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.
Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.
I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.
I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.
