Quotes About Ordinary

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

I lead such a boring life.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Oh, how daily life is.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

When they parted it was in the ordinary way: neither had an impulse to say anything special. The whole day had been ordinary. Yet it had never come before either of them, nor was it to be repeated.

He was a mediocre member of a mediocre school.

For many of those who are privileged enough to be in a position to try to analyse the important matters of big politics, the ordinary man's feeling of smallness and the rage it engenders are inaccessible, and so it is equally hard for them to comprehend how that smallness might desperately crave to be part of a we that promises greatness.

The commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood by magnifying the commonplace.

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.