Ordinary Quotes
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I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
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Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
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Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
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When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.
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What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
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Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
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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.
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I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.
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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.
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
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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.
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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
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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.
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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.
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What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
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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.
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.
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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.
