Quotes About Ordinary

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep. Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.

But the killers were not gladiators. They were ordinary people, and their victims were unarmed men and women and children, all savagely slaughtered without mercy.

Ordinary was a word that came charging out of the sunrise on a palomino pony as soon as you thought about her.

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.

Perveen should have been happy to hear these words of release; but instead, she felt a great sorrow that the one she'd believed was her kindred spirit had turned out to be such an ordinary, closed-minded man.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.

Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.

I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.

Maybe I should love someone mundane and let them bore me to death.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.

Because sometimes evil didn't show its ugly self; it could put on the clothes of an ordinary boy. The boy could sit across the table from you, a stray lock of hair hanging in his eyes. He could be doing all the regular things boys do, shoveling in the mashed potatoes, pushing the peas around on his plate, preferring peach cobbler over rhubarb in the late summer while the wasps batted the window screen and the fan on the sideboard rotated.

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Dac? miracolul este ceva irecognoscibil, adic? un fapt dup? toate aparenÈ›ele ordinar – atunci toate faptele ordinare cap?t? o maxim? importan??, c?ci în oricare din ele poate fi o intervenÈ›ie iraÈ›ional?, divin?. Întâmplarea poate ajunge atunci c?l?uza existenÈ›ei noastre.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.

They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.