Quotes About Ordinary

Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.

We could see other fires--great leaping bonfires as well as cooking fires--all the way down the beach to the twinkling metropolis of Joyland. They made a lovely chain of burning jewelry. Such fires are probably illegal in the twenty-first century; the powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don't know why that should be, I only know it is.

I'm smart enough to know that Elizabeth had no doubt seen dozens of men leap over curbs without her falling in love with the leaper, but I do believe this: When an endeavor is special in a person's life, others discern it intuitively and appreciate it more, like the praise a child receives for a lumpy clay sculpture. And as ordinary as such an event might be, it can be instilled with uncommon power.

Timelessness again, the house like a secret temple as dust built up on things that were never meant to have dust on them - Clee's toothbrush and hairdryer and left-out-of-the-box CDs and deodorant on the bathroom window ledge. Ordinary things carefully kept in place because the last person to touch them would never put a cup down on the edge of the table again, or ever leave a book half-read.

And of course, if they do recognize that they are living through a historical crisis, it's often too late—because, like it or not, the primary way that ordinary people create this distinct genre of history is by dying.

But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity

evil, in fact, is perpetrated by people who are mostly ordinary and who respond to their circumstances, including provocation by the victim, in ways that they feel are reasonable and just.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

It's funny, or tragic, really, how an ordinary act like helping someone with their homework could be the inadvertent trigger for almost a decade of silent suffering.

Tijd was ook maar een afspraak, gemaakt door gewone mensen die een gewone wereld wilden.

It is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives.

Persons of good sense are necessarily dull, because they revolve over and over again the tedious topics of everyday life.

El alma vulgar, sabiéndose vulgar, tiene el denuedo de afirmar el derecho a la vulgaridad y lo impone donde quiera

Lo característico del momento es que el alma vulgar, sabiéndose vulgar, tiene el denuedo de afirmar el derecho a la vulgaridad y lo impone dondequiera.

O característico do momento é que a alma vulgar, sabendo-se vulgar, tem a audácia de afirmar o direito à vulgaridade e o impõe em toda parte.

En el verdadero hombre mediocre la cabeza es un simple adorno del cuerpo.

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

I'm not . . . special

Radical', as in 'radical democracy' or 'radical politics', suggests a commitment to the expansion of liberty and equality into the ever wider areas of the 'social' as to give political voice to the ordinary people.