Quotes About Ordinary

Ce que l'extrême et l'ordinaire ont également en commun, c'est que, ici comme là, la majorité des individus opte pour les valeurs vitales, et quelques-uns seulement choisissent l'autre voie. Ou peut-être : la plupart du temps, chaque individu opte pour les valeurs vitales ; mais n'ignore pas pour autant les réactions morales.

A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.

We tend to underestimate the power of banality.

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like wolves alert to any poor sheep that might stray from the fold and stand gazing ignorantly up at the stars.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

My life is a plate of perfectly edible but ordinary scrambled eggs. I want them savory, creamy, cheesy and maybe with bacon on the side.

La vita è una cella un po' fuori dell'ordinario, più uno è povero più si restringono i metri quadrati a sua disposizione.

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

The best things are the most common.

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom. It's available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

1. The first is simply not to try to be clever. Innovations have to be handled by ordinary human beings, if they are to attain any size and importance at all, by morons or near-morons. Incompetence, after all, is the only thing in abundant and never-failing supply. Anything too clever, whether in design or execution, is almost bound to fail.

Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.

I really was put out of Germany for the crime of blasphemy... My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man

Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even

Religion, Sebastian thought wearily. More ins and outs, more angles, than ordinary commerce.

He embodied what he worshipped, the exquisite in the commonplace…salt for the spirit.

Because you happen to be a writer doesn't mean you have to deny yourself the ordinary human pleasure of being praised and applauded.

Ordinarily my mother drew no strength from scorn

that is when I realized what our romance was about. It was not about a future that was socially just, or about a world redeemed. It was about averting our eyes from this ordinary fact. Our romance was a shield protecting us from the terror of our common human fate.

People often think there is no way to heal from severe loss. I believe that is not true. You heal when you can remember those who have died with more love than pain, when you find a way to create meaning in your own life in a way that will honor theirs. It requires a decision and a desire to do this, but finding meaning is not extraordinary, it's ordinary. It happens all the time, all over the world.

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.