Ordinary Quotes - Page 12

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.

By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

However, one new theory says that dark matter may be ordinary matter in a parallel universe. If a galaxy is hovering above in another dimension, we would not be able to see it. It would be invisible, yet we would feel its gravity. Hence, it might explain dark matter.

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.