Ordinary Quotes - Page 29

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.

As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them again, it is federal, not national; and finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal, nor wholly national.

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.