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Quotes About Ordinary

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
~ Mo Yan
Don't we, the ordinary citizens of our country who are aware of the threat, realize the elites will take care of their own no matter what happens?
~ William R. Forstchen
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
~ William Shakespeare
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence.
~ William Shakespeare
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
~ William Shakespeare
Choice word and measured phrase, above the reachOf ordinary men.
~ William Wordsworth
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
~ Winston Graham
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You may be thinking that a bag is just a thing in which to put other things. And you're right, of course. But that's what makes them so extraordinary. A bag has no intentions or desires of its own, it embraces every object that we ask it to hold. You trust the bag, and it, in return, trusts you. To me, a bag is patience; a bag is profound discretion.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
~ David Sedaris
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum
~ Dean Cavanagh
You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.
~ Deb Caletti
Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.
~ Deb Caletti
You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have the past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.
~ Deb Caletti
When you look back, most days in life seem ordinary, but there are some that change your life forever and remain etched in your memory.
~ Toffee, Finding Juliet
I am not a extra-ordinary person, In the same way I am not a ordinary person.
~ AR Bharaty
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
~ Joanna R. Macy
Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!
~ Amy Leigh Mercree
We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.
~ Robert M. Drake
An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy--common clay, if you like--eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people like you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others--the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
~ Jean Anouilh
Do not wait for extraordinary situations to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
~ Jean Paul Richter
We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
~ Jean Vanier