Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
I can't explain my popularity. I suppose I'm just an ordinary bloke, and a lot of people see a little bit of Eddie in themselves.
It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.
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.
The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.
The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.
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 life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.
I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.
I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
I will become a clean president. I will become a president who can retire home as an ordinary citizen and is welcomed by neighbors.
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.
As ordinary citizens, we don't spend much time reading about and thinking through the creation of new laws or amendments of old ones.
The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.
When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn't an ordinary place at all.
I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.
[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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.
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.