Top 1200 Ordinary Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.

Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

By immersing ourselves with our consciousness in a supersensible world, we now learn a new kind of thinking, a new life of mental pictures, one that is not dependent on the nervous system in the way ordinary thinking is. We know that previously we have had to make use of our nervous system, but now we no longer need our brain.

I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics.

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.