Quotes About Ordinary

All "paths of liberation" (brain-freeing schools) know that we cannot remain in the abyss of the nameless forever, unless we choose to become hermits. (Very few do.) Once we have returned from a school of brain-change to the ordinary world, we again must see and think in masks, or we will not have the ability to communicate with and deal with others.

Joyce announced that he did not believe in heroes, and Bloom is no hero: just an ordinary decent man. There are a million like him in any large city: Joyce was merely the first to put him in a novel, with biological functions and timid courage unglamorized and uncensored.

Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there...

If there's evil in recklessness, there's also evil in banality.

Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.

People in their houses at night. These ordinary lives. Passing without their knowing it. I'd hoped to recapture something. The officer stared at him. The precious ordinary. I

People in their houses at night. These ordinary lives. Passing without their knowing it. Bid hoped to recapture something. The officer stared at him. The precious ordinary.

The precious ordinary. I

People in their houses at night. These ordinary lives. Passing without their knowing it. He'd hoped to recapture something. The officer stared at him. The precious ordinary.

The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

Madlaline's stories stirred up an old restlessness in me, an urge I'd always had to strike out headlong into the world, to be dauntless. By comparison my own life seemed crushingly ordinary. I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness…feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer more hollow self.

prided myself on knowing that my clever story had given her a bit of reprieve from the discontent of her marriage. She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

This explained the world they lived in; the murderers were willing to kill to get their way. In a fight between sociopathic sick wounded angry fucked-up wicked people, and all the rest of them, not just the good and the brave but the ordinary and weak, the sheep who just wanted to get by, the fuckers always won.

principle of mediocrity.

What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common sense!

Vi andre blir til det lille vi blir fordi er så almindelige. Han er fra et grænseland som er ukjendt for os.

she spied nothing out of the ordinary—tourists milling, witches catcalling to human males—but

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -Scarecrow

It is but honest that I should acknowledge at the beginning of my recital that I was born an ordinary Woggle-Bug, began the creature, in a frank and friendly tone.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.