Quotes About Ordinary

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

If you want to become Extraordinary, first become ordinary and put Extra efforts to the ordinary works.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Hoy fue un dia feliz. Solo rutina

It was what Joseph had missed most during the war, all the small, scattered pieces of the precious and luminous ordinary, evidence that life insists on continuing.

It has always been thus, that the mundane masks the magnificent in us.

Si nosotros hacemos lo ordinario, Dios le añadirá lo extraordinario.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

No life is unremarkable.

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.

Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.

What sort of look are you going for?" Damn, how did he answer this? "Something…normal, " he finally said.

jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

A gift may look ordinary but when given with love, becomes a treasure for a lifetime. Christmas reminds us of God's extraordinary gift of salvation and the eternal treasure we have in Jesus Christ.

It doesn't require a special day to express how much I Love You. If every ordinary day is more than special when I am with you.

Aren't we all -- not just the saints and saintly, but also all we ordinary sorts-- meant, at lest occasionally, to dream the dreams that, by grace, move the soul beyond her dry and dusty season into that transcendent sleep that is so sweet?

Ordinary people may simply be acting appropriately in their organizational role, just doing what is expected of them while participating in what a critical observer (usually well after the fact) would call evil. Under conditions of what we term moral inversion, ordinary people can engage in acts of administrative evil while believing that what they are doing is not only procedurally correct but, in fact, good.

Real history is the commonplace, unrecorded.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

It seems such an ordinary story, this handsome but otherwise unremarkable young couple settling down to a quietly happy marriage, looking forward to further children. Though they had no great prospects they were content with their lot in life. There was absolutely no indication that their children – there would be seven in all – would be so extraordinary that they would make the family a household name.