Top 1200 Ordinary Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

If you love a person truly, you can make an ordinary day very special for her.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

An ordinary pushup is much more advanced and challenging performed on a stability ball.

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

I was just an ordinary player with a big heart and a fighting spirit to recommend me.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

I hear all of these liberals so concerned with people's health and so critical of tobacco cause it kills, it's deadly, and secondhand and third, and they've created a bunch of insane people out there. I'm telling you, liberalism has created literally deranged people afraid of everything. I mean it makes no sense to be afraid of secondhand smoke a hundred yards away from it. They have created this. They have created this inordinate fear of ordinary, everyday life.

If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.

Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide. When they know that they don't know, people can find their own way. If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich. The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with an ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature.

The moment one starts sharing one`s being without any motive life becomes a sweet fragrance. It is all honey. Then everything remains the same, yet nothing is the same any more. When your heart beats in harmony, in love, in joy, when you are no longer greedy, when there are no desires and no ambitions, and when there are no ego trips any more, one is simply, ordinary, but sweet. That taste is the taste of god.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

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To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.