Top 1200 Ordinary Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.

If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the ordinary.

There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.

After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.