Top 1200 Ordinary Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

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.

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

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

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.