Quotes About Ordinary

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

Los monstruos existen pero son demasiado pocos para ser realmente peligroso; más peligrosos son los hombres comunes, los funcionarios dispuestos a creer y obedecer sin discutir...

One of the gifts that comes with age is an appreciation for some of the more simple, more commonplace things that seem mundane earlier in one's life. As the years pass, the hidden treasure to be found in humble and unpretentious virtues becomes more accentuated—things like rest, silence, and the joy of an ordinary day. The attraction toward activity and achievement lessens, becoming slowly, steadily, and appropriately replaced by an interest in more internal matters.

Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean. I still felt fondness for her—fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean. I still felt fondness for her—fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. I

Maybe if the death had occurred on the other side of the street, I'd be watching from here with different kids, acting as foolish. Maybe the difference between horror and holiday was just the width of an ordinary street.

Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.

Maybe the difference between horror and holiday was just the width of an ordinary street.

Just to have ordinary, garden-variety human consciousness is unspeakably extraordinary. We are the luckiest of mud. No need to consider further: we'd be perfectly justified to stop right here with tears of wonder and gratitude pouring down our cheeks.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.

Basically, the idea is that with everyone striving to be revolutionary, you will be the most revolutionary if you try to be ordinary.

lowest common denominator.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

I'm an average person.

I like small, domestic stories.

I'm a very normal guy. Like, I'm an average dude.

I'm just a normal dude.

I'm just a regular dude.

I'm actually a rather dull man.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

I'm an average, everyday girl.

In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.