Ordinary Quotes
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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.
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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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.
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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.
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It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !
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I'm just an ordinary judge from California.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
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But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.
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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.
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She's just funny about accolades, ... She would say, 'I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.'
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I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.
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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
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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.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
