Ordinary Quotes - Page 17

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as if you are living in a fantasy world of a fable. This is an interesting and sad syndrome. I’m sure that I have that syndrome. If it’s not it, then why the heck does my every moment with the ordinary girl feel like a fable?

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.

The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

I have always believed that everyone has the potential to do something extraordinary if they're guided and helped along the way.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.