Ordinary Quotes - Page 36

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.

The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else-whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being-our studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and offers numerous health benefits.

There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

The ordinary is the divine.

What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.

The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.