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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.
How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
An ordinary pushup is much more advanced and challenging performed on a stability ball.
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
I was just an ordinary player with a big heart and a fighting spirit to recommend me.
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.
If you love a person truly, you can make an ordinary day very special for her.
Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.
What is it that brings on these moods of yours?
Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.
I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.
Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.
Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.
It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.
I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
