Quotes About Ordinary

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

There was such art in the ordinary, it could leave you in tears.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

Dara had a way of making even the mundane extraordinary.

The exceptional happens quietly, inside the mundane.

The purpose of life is to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner.

You don't need to worry if people call you ordinary -- only if you are ordinary.

At present this horror of life is already less pronounced, and the melancholy less acute. But I still have no will, and hardly any desires, or none at all that are to do with ordinary life.

Living was simple: it was no more than a few habitual actions strung on to a routine.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....

The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all our diversity, we can come together as a community of believers to restore the image of God in the world. (In His Image, Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand, p. 40)

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.

It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do.

It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating the marriage, afraid of childbirth, afraid of everything about being a wife. Nobody even asks if I have lost my childhood sense of vocation, if I still want to be a nun. Nobody cares what I think at all. They treat me like an ordinary young woman, bred for wedding and bedding, and since they do not ask me what I think, nor observe what I feel, there is nothing that gives them pause at all.

She tried to live like an ordinary woman; but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways; but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum.

It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do." "To