Ordinary Quotes
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Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.
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The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
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Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.
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Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.
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I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.
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Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
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I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
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Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.
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The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
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“Ranged from bad to ordinary.”
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There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
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Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.
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It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
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When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers.
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Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.
