Being Ordinary Quotes
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They both savored the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.
— Terry Pratchett
When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world.
— Siri Hustvedt
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
— Walter Savage Landor
I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting ... if ever it was.
— Donna Lynn Hope
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
— Katharine Hepburn
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
— Wayne Thiebaud
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.
— Peaches Geldof
Being out of the ordinary is AWESOME.
— Tanya Masse
I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary. How can I just have this one life?
— Meg Wolitzer
Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human being fully alive.
— William Sloane Coffin
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
— George Orwell
We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.
— Steve Toltz
Nothing else seems out of the ordinary for a horrible haunted forest being inhabited by a child eating witch.
— Seanan McGuire
That was when I came to understand that freaks of nature and ordinary people had no business being together.
— Alice Hoffman
I don't work at being ordinary.
— Paul McCartney
Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.
— Ricky Gervais
For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary.
— Brene Brown
Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
— Paulo Coelho
I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.
— Timothy Findley
contact points are larger and instead of the current being led through the bearings as in an ordinary
— Archie Frederick Collins
I can't understand why people can't go on just being ordinary to each other even if they are in love.
— Henry Green
if you want to be extraordinary, the first thing you have to do is stop being ordinary.
— Juli Baldwin
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
— Iris Murdoch
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to beEXTRAORDINARY. — Shannon L. Alder
Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
— Karen Thompson Walker
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
— Anton Chekhov
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
— Neal Stephenson
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.
— Veronique Vienne
There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie's opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
— Libba Bray
All exceptional people are, by definition, exceptions to the norm. If we insist on being ordinary, we can never be truly extraordinary.
— William Ritter
It became clear that this man, although supposedly my enemy, was in fact just another human being, an ordinary person like myself.
— Dalai Lama XIV
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
— Adyashanti
From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out.
— Belle Malory
Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
— Tom Hooper
What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive. — Charles Baudelaire
There is nothing wrong with being a woman, and doing ordinary things. Sometimes small deeds can show big ideas.
— Judith Merkle Riley
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.
— Dalai Lama
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
— Haruki Murakami
When the anointing of God is upon a person, it changes that individual from being a little ordinary person into being a giant.
— Sunday Adelaja
