Top 1200 Ordinary Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life..

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.

I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!

Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become