Quotes About Ordinary

When God became flesh, every ordinary human life was validated as sacred. The fact that God became human and spent most of His life in obscurity as a carpenter in a small village called Nazareth gives us perspective. Through the incarnation, we learn that every life has dignity and significance; every ordinary life matters.

September 11 made plain how the security of ordinary Afghans was connected to the security of ordinary Americans and Europeans.

The first movement in human history to trust the ordinary person's ability to judge the weight of evidence for themselves was the drive to get people to read the Bible for themselves.

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

I think the movie, 'Joy,' has so many touchpoints with so many people because it is about the ordinary, but a lot of the times, the ordinary is extraordinary.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong.

Thee notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong.

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

Well, now,' the latter replied pensively, 'they're people like any other people...they love money, but that has always been so...Mankind loves money, whatever it's made of -leather, paper, bronze, gold. Well, they're light-minded...well, what of it...mercy sometimes knocks at their hearts...ordinary people...In general, reminiscent of the former ones...only the housing problem has corrupted them...' Chapter 12

As constatações mais banais são sempre as mais surpreendentes

The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

In love the ordinary is made sacred.

It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

There's nothing unusual about love.

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.

I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife