Ordinary Quotes - Page 18

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won’t lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I can’t allow myself to be ordinary!

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

I never promised you a rose garden.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.

As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.