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Quotes About Ordinary

Our daily trance can feel ordinary and familiar,
~ Tara Brach
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
~ Tasha Alexander
medium. I'm into the museum-quality marbles and the delicate line drawings, but the dolls were something that an ordinary person could get behind. My
~ Tayari Jones
Once again there was the feeling that the ordinary things before one's very eyes were becoming unordinary.
~ Tayeb Salih
The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.
~ Ted Chiang
I'm just a guy. There's nothing special about me.
~ Aaron Donald
I got recognized at the market the other day, but, no, nothing that spectacular. There's nobody fainting in the street as I walk past.
~ Tommy Fleetwood
After spending time in the East and meeting with ordinary Afghans there, it's hard to imagine how a future Afghan government will retain control of provinces such as Khost or Paktia once U.S. forces are gone.
~ Joby Warrick
I think I'm always interested in the people who aren't generals or master spies or royalty. The people caught in the crossfire.
~ Leigh Bardugo
Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things.
~ Angela Ahrendts
I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.
~ Peaches Geldof
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
~ William Halsey
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
~ William Halsey
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
~ Giorgio Agamben
There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.
~ William Halsey
St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.
~ Josemaria Escriva
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
~ Loren Eiseley
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.
~ Pam Brown
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
~ Gary Cooper
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
~ Adyashanti
I am just a plain, common man.
~ Nicholas II of Russia
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
~ Samuel Butler
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
~ Sri Aurobindo
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
~ Anton Chekhov