Ordinary Quotes - Page 32

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way?

Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.

Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

My central focus is creating employment for the ordinary citizen.

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.

It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting. No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

Be content with an ordinary life.

If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.