Ordinary Quotes - Page 45

I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

I am entirely confident that the extraordinary women we have running for us right across Canada will make excellent cabinet ministers.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

What I think the appeal of the [Donald] Trump program has been is that it offers some kind of concrete, specific, historically rooted, a familiar image of how ordinary Americans, regular Americans can earn their living.

Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.” Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?” “Heaven.

What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.