Quotes About Ordinary

koinophobia the fear that you've lived an ordinary life.

Ordinary people with commitments can make an extraordinary impact in their world

She thought about how it was something they would all remember forever. How this was family: to own such moments together. To experience them in all their raw shock and sadness, then get the food from the refrigerator, unwrap the crackers and fill the glasses, keep the gears turning, the grand existing beside the routine, the ordinary.

I hear that George Sand is seldom at Paris now. She has devoted herself to play-writing, and employs a houseful of men, her son's friends and her own, in acting privately with her what she writes — trying it on a home stage before she tries it at Paris. Her son is a very ordinary young man of three-and-twenty, but she is fond of him....

An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.

Harriet, her only child, was what the villagers in Mrs. Ogilvy's old home would have called a natural. Her intellect was not so clouded that intercourse with ordinary people was out of the question; the deficiency showed itself rather in a horrid uncouthness, the more noticeable in that she had a vigorous and powerful zest for such aspects of existence as were intelligible to her; she was not easy to put out of the way.

But that's just the news, isn't it. They make their money out of having ordinary people on the edge of their seats all the time and fretting over every little thing.' 'But

one century after the death of Christ he raised a very ordinary, if beautiful, Greek boy to be the last pagan god of ancient Rome.

When ordinary folk perceive phenomena, They look on them as real, and not illusory. This, then, is the subject of debate Where ordinary and yogis differ.

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

An ordinary idle king on a constitutional throne will leave no mark on his time: he will do little good and as little harm.

The Inhumans, just as an idea - the idea that you were an ordinary horseman until you were exposed to this catalyst that is a very rare element - is a neat idea in and of itself.

My father was not in power when I started my political career, or when I fought my first election in 1996. Starting like any ordinary person, I reached out to people everywhere.

I put ordinary people in jeopardy and give them the opportunity to be heroic. Then there's a great payoff for the reader at the end, when the heroic character gets what he or she deserves. Readers will come back again and again if they feel satisfied at the end.

I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.

I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

I'm poor just like everybody else. If someone kidnaps me, they're getting nothing but a candy, a gum.

I don't like being in the limelight. It is not something extraordinary. It is just my habit.

I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret, it's somthin' ordinary folks do for a livin' every day of the week. It's business.

Most ordinary criminals steer clear of the weird shit. There are the Death Cults, but . . . I trust you'll never need to know about them.

No day is ordinary—God's loving presence and care pervades them all. — James Stuart Bell