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Quotes About Ordinary

But for a four-year-old, everything is sacred and ordinary.
~ Abraham Verghese
For twenty-eight years of Baby Mol's life, the sun has never failed to come up, yet every morning she's ecstatic at its return. To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.
~ Abraham Verghese
Perhaps history had dwindled away. Their lives, Lydia's and Silas's, the whole country's, had become ordinary things. Not worth recording any longer, not worth the few precious moments of her busy day.
~ Achmat Dangor
Against the monster, I've always wanted meaning. Not for its own sake, because in the usual course of things, who needs the self-consciousness of it? Let meaning be immanent, noted in passing, if at all. But that won't do when the monster has its funnel driven into the back of your head and is sucking the light coming through your eyes straight out of you into the mouth of oblivion. So like a cripple I long for what others don't notice they have: ordinary meaning.
~ Adam Haslett
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Joy, it seemed, came in unexpected bursts, buried among the mundane and ordinary, balanced by tragedy and sorrow.
~ Adrienne Basso
I wanted to choose words that even you would have to be changed by Take the word of my pulse, loving and ordinary Send out your signals, hoist your dark scribbled flags but take my hand
~ Adrienne Rich
If I could let you know - two women together is a work nothing in civilization ha made simple, two people together is a work heroic in its ordinariness, the slow-picked, halting traverse of a pitch where the fiercest attention becomes routine - look at the faces of those who have chosen it.
~ Adrienne Rich
To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two - to fix your opponent's expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.
~ Robert Greene
That was always our favorite type of story, and that's the stuff we fell in love with. The peak of those type of ordinary-meets-extraordinary stories was in the '80s.
~ Ross Duffer
'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada.
~ Stacey D'Erasmo
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.
~ Steve Carell
I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.
~ Sarah McLachlan
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.
~ Gene Wilder
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.
~ Julia Roberts
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Yesterday I was so full of hope. My life seemed blessed, full of adventures and answered prayers, and now something very, very bad has happened and it will never be the same again. And it all happened because I was greedy. Because I couldn't have an ordinary life. Because I was so taken with the wonders of the world that I could not be content with anything less than the constant awareness of its miracles.
~ Polly Horvath
Hospital sends its medical staffs to the house of ordinary patient suffering from cold, cough or viral fever to create fear of Covid amidst public
~ Prafull Sakulani
Today media fake survey report was saying 84 per cent people are interested in covid vaccination and 8% was not interested. Truth that was not told by news reader that 84% ordinary people are forced to take jab and 8 % not interested ones are doctors, politicians, corporate directors , news anchors, media proprietors
~ Praveen Maheswari
And yet this part of the story shows that God supplies our need in a way that is both extraordinary but also ordinary. The extraordinary: The flour and oil were never used up. The ordinary: There was just enough for each day. It was never a case of a hundred barrels of flour and oil being wasted before their eyes. The amount was small and always
~ R. T. Kendall
Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.
~ R.C. Sproul Jr.
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
~ Charles Francis Richter
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
~ Jean Paul