Quotes About Ordinary

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

The magic of everyday life is the sacred moment.

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.

Character and education are the wings you can give your children and they will fly to places where ordinary people cannot go

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.