Ordinary Quotes
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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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In our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
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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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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.
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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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When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
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I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.
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The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.
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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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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
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I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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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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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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I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.
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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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What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
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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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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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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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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.
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I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.
