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Quotes About Ordinary

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!
~ Norman Lock, American Meteor
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
~ Bum Phillips
What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
~ Francis Chan
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
~ Anatoly Karpov
Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him
~ Josemaria Escriva
I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
~ Henry Hill
On the 15th day of the same month, President Lincoln, introducing his farce "of combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings," called forth the military of the several States to the number of seventy-five thousand, and commanded "the persons composing the combinations" to disperse, etc.
~ Jefferson Davis
A worthy life means showing up when showing up is the only thing to do. Goodness bears itself out in millions of ordinary ways across the globe, for the rich and poor, the famous and unknown, in enormous measures and tiny, holy moments.
~ Jen Hatmaker
A worthy life means showing up when showing up is the only thing to do. Goodness bears itself out in millions of ordinary ways across the globe, for the rich and poor, the famous and unknown, in enormous measures and tiny, holy moments. It may involve a career and it may not. It may include traditional components and it may not.
~ Jen Hatmaker
I don't know your feelings about church, but what if you freed up your pastors to be ordinary men and women, your church to be a simple family, and your life to be for loving God and people?
~ Jen Hatmaker
Yet just as ordinary, quotidian life may harbor possibilities for extraordinary, even ecstatic experience,5 I suggest that such spontaneity is latent within the common flow of human consciousness
~ Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
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.
~ Jennifer Garner
I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.
~ Émile Zola
The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her
~ Emily Bronte
This was a Poet - It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings - And Attar so immense
~ Emily Dickinson
Whenever I hear of someone else's tragedy, I do not dwell on the accident or diagnosis, or even the initial shock waves or aftermath of grief. Instead, I find myself reconstructing those final ordinary moments. Moments that make up our lives. Moments that were blissfully taken for granted--and that likely would have been forgotten altogether but for what followed. The before snapshots.
~ Emily Giffin
The soul of the ordinary man and woman is full of good will; but good sense, logical intelligence, is too rare.
~ Eric Gill
Má»™t cuá»™c s?ng gi?n d? ngày nay là cuá»™c phiêu lưu d? th??ng nh?t.
~ Eric Maria Remarque
Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade.
~ Eric Schlosser
It was clear to me that thinking yourself superior was a sure sign of being inferior and that thinking yourself extraordinary was a sure sign of being ordinary.
~ Erica Jong
the regular crying, lights on
~ Amir Gutfreund
Mediocrist (n.) A person of mediocre talents. Nobody wants to be mediocre, but someone has to be. In fact, by definition, most people are. Microphily
~ Ammon Shea
Hilbert, who was always down-to-earth, liked to say: 'One must always be able to say "tables, chairs, beer-mugs", instead of "points, lines, planes".
~ Andrew Hodges