Quotes About Ordinary

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

most days in life are ordinary. When special ones roll around, celebrate and make happy memories to carry you through the dull days.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

And it was then that I knew what it means to be lucky--lucky to have met a person during those three minutes of the day that he's good. Because I have a lot of time on my hands--you can imagine that that adds up. there are 24 hours in a day, and half of that is night. That leaves you with 12. And that's 12 times 60 minutes, that is, 720 minutes minus three minutes of goodness still leaves you with 717 minutes worth of nasty ordinary person.

Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)

But this is also one of the most compelling elements in travel, the feeling of dread underneath everything, it makes sensations heightened and acute, the world is charged with a power it doesn't have in ordinary life.

Claims to ordinariness and salt-of-the-earth virtue—"slumming it," as it's crudely called—are themselves pretentious. The assumption that dropping your aitches or asserting a love of a cheap beer over a fine wine, or processed cheese over a Parmesan, will make you seem unspoiled or somehow more gritty is classic downwardly mobile play-acting.

She was not ugly, she was not pretty. But just that old-fashioned word, plain.

La mundanidad de la excelencia. Los logros humanos más deslumbrantes proceden en realidad de la combinación de innumerables elementos individuales que por separado son, en cierto sentido, corrientes.

We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.

I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist.

If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

It was Aunt Lovey's belief that all ordinary people led extraordinary lives, but just didn't notice.

she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

In spite of all that is said, and more especially written, about the crabbed New Englander, New Englanders, like all ordinary people, are nice. Their manner of proffering a favor is sometimes on the crusty side, but that is much more often diffidence than surliness.

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

from W. H. Auden: "Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table,' Jane said almost under her breath.

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

I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids.

Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.

Heroes don't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they don't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.