Ordinary Quotes - Page 6

Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.