Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.
I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.
We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
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.
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.
Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.
We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.
I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.
Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.
In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.
I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.
We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!