Top 1200 Ordinary Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

To face one who is extraordinary,I cant allow myself to be ordinary

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

When ordinary people come together, they can upset the mighty.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

Zalachenko...you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

Nothing extraordinary is achieved through ordinary means.

...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.