Ordinary Quotes
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
Karen Robards -
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud
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I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded and true to myself. My family really helps me with that.
Zendaya -
I'm not here to transplant saints. If you just want an ordinary church, pick up the Yellow Pages and find the closest one to you.
Gene Scott -
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
Walter Lord -
No one is ever ordinary.
Tanith Lee -
I'm just an ordinary judge from California.
Joseph Wapner -
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. Austin
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It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
R. J. Palacio -
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
Machado de Assis -
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.
Terence McKenna -
It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !
Akbar -
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
Malala Yousafzai -
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Albert Einstein -
I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.
Michael Gerber -
We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.
Madeleine de Souvre -
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
Peter Lamborn Wilson -
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
Oscar Wilde
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To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.
Zeena Schreck -
I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.
Carl Reiner -
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.
Leonard Baskin -
Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.
D. A. Carson