Ordinary Quotes
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
Bob Goff -
I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.
Miep Gies
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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
Gautama Buddha -
William Eggleston sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.
Eudora Welty -
Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.
Michael Medved -
I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.
King George V -
I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky -
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
Susan Cheever
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The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.
Richard Norton Smith -
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
Ransom Riggs -
There's nothing ordinary about you. Nothing ordinary at all.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism (better, "pandeism," for again it is not really the theos that is described) means that God is the integral totality of ordinary cause-effects, and that there, is no super-cause independent of ordinary causes and effects.
Charles Hartshorne -
I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.
Mini Grey -
What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
Francis Chan
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We're all pretty ordinary on paper.
Michael Bergin -
Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
Cecelia Ahern -
It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
Haruki Murakami -
If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.
Gar Alperovitz -
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
Pearl Cleage -
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
Elisabeth Elliot
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I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.
Michelle Magorian -
Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.
William Daniel Phillips -
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
George Will -
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
Haruki Murakami