Ordinary Quotes - Page 14

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now ­­– the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

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.

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.

Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action - even ordinary action - so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.