Quotes About Ordinary

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they're supposed to be. I've been thinking about the patience Of ordinary things, how clothes Wait respectfully in closets And soap dries quietly in the dish, And towels drink the wet From the skin of the back. And the lovely repetition of stairs. And what is more generous than a window?

But sometimes, I hate myself for hating him. Simply because he is an ordinary boy.

A detective uncovers the rebellion. Isn't that what sin is? Same with murder - the cunning, ugly ordinary mutiny of it?

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.

Normal is just a settng on your dryer

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

entrenchment of social conservatism, being a strident belief in God, King and Country that arose after the disillusionment of the Belle Époque (which was never anything other than an elitist movement that scarcely touched the majority of ordinary people).

LIFE is like a pond into which an idle child drops a pebble and from that act the ripples spread outward. Wrong. Life is a stream and not a stream in spate, just an ordinary piddling sort of stream with its routine eddies, whirls and no-account vorticles.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

When lawyers are muddled ordinary people win and lose disputes for no good reason. More accurately, my mistake. In short because of intellectual pigheadedness injustice is done. And that is disgraceful.

That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.