Ordinary Quotes - Page 44

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.

I hate ordinary people!

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.

I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.