Quotes About Ordinary

du monde commun, à peu près universellement partagé, à la différence des mondes spéciaux, microcosmes fondés, comme l'univers de la littérature ou de la science, sur une rupture avec le sens commun, avec l'adhésion doxique au monde ordinaire.

Our life did not seem unusual to me at all. Anything that happened that was special, like visits from dignitaries, was always explained as part of Dad's work.

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

They seemed perfectly ordinary. This, Elliott deduced, was because they were burying their insanity deep beneath a façade of normality.

The people we were destroying were no longer just people like Jonah: public figures who had committed actual transgressions. They were private individuals who really hadn't done anything much wrong. Ordinary humans were being forced to learn damage control, like corporations that had committed PR disasters. It was very stressful.

listened to ordinary citizens risking imprisonment by demanding fair elections, free travel, the neutering of the Stasi.

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

Temple Grandin has argued that ordinary people can become sadistic from the dehumanizing work of constant slaughter.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect that she was not falling in love at all, bt doing something much more ordinary.

In this world, beauty is so common.

Había recibido cinco balazos. Desconocedor feliz de la muerte, un gato de lo más ordinario lo rondaba con cierta perplejidad.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists -that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred- this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.

You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of my waking, Almaz rattling in the kitchen, my work, my classes, my rounds with the senior students. Seeing you and Shiva at dinner, then going to sleep with my wife...I want my days to be that way.

Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front porch.

His art, so he tells himself, is to give voice to the ordinary, in memorable ways.