Ordinary Quotes - Page 28

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.