Top 1200 Ordinary Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven't done it for 20 years.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

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.

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

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 originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.

I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to work that muscle. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

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.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself as Truth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

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.

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

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.

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.

Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

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.

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.

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 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.'

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

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.