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The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
— Blaise Pascal
The Lord uses the ordinary and humble things in life to accomplish His purposes - not the mighty and proud.
— Bobby Holliday
But I'm not everyone am I?You, Rebel Blue, are anything but ordinary — Shelley Coriell
If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.
— Idries Shah
Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.
— Shannon L. Alder
I do have a religion; it's just not an ordinary one. In fact it is an extraordinary one. My religion is Literature.
— Stephan Attia
Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
— Charles Bukowski
There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
— Horace Bushnell
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
— Peter O'Toole
I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
— J.P. Donleavy
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
— Franz Kafka
The truth that our futures are so often determined not by some grand design or deliberate strategy but by an ordinary run-of-the-mill head cold.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul's slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter? During
— Justin Cronin
I am associate of God's kind, I am in fraternity with divinity;I am not ordinary
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson
Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.
— Ervin Staub
If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Ordinary life does not interest me.
— Anais Nin
For an ordinary trooper like him, ignorance was not simply an abstract value. It was in the manual.
— Alan Dean Foster
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
— Anne Enright
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
— H.P. Lovecraft
You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are!
— Joyce Carol Oates
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
— Ramana Maharshi
God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment
— Sunday Adelaja
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
— George Steiner
Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.
— Ralph Marston
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
— Jaggi Vasudev
I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
After all, none of us came here to live an ordinary life. Whether we believe it or not, we are all destined for greatness.
— Thea Euryphaessa
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
It is not special to be special, it's special to be ordinary
— Shahrukh Khan
I don't do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.
— Desiree Rogers
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
— Howard Rheingold
Ordinary men, we have seen, are not much interested in any political problems which do not immediately affect themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
— Joseph Addison
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
— Richard Rohr
It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Here's what I think: the only reason I'm not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
— R.J. Palacio
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously ...
— Norman Mailer
It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
— Melissa Bank
If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.
— Helen Clark
I would call him an ordinary man, but, well." Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement. — Courtney Milan
I think you're really nice""I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement. — Elise Valmorbida
We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
— Jean Vanier
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
— Anton Chekhov
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
— Erich Fromm
After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things
— Georgette Heyer
The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.
— Margaret D. Nadauld
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism.
— Margaret Thatcher
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.
— Michael Dirda
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
— Mark Twain
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
He's dead, she reminded herself. He's hunting a vampire. This is not the stable, normal, ordinary guy you're looking for.
— Sela Carsen
ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation.
— Sherif Girgis
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
— Yoshida Shoin
Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.
— Nicholas Sparks
Great quotes do not come from great people. They come from ordinary people who think differently.
— Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
— Nicolas Malebranche
If you don't see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you're not going to resonate very much.
— Artie Shaw
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
— Andrew Solomon
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
— Buzz Aldrin
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
— Margaret Atwood
I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
— Jeanette Winterson
I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.
— Konstantin Stanislavski
We are not made for brilliant moments, but we have to walk in the light of them in ordinary ways.
— Oswald Chambers
Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
— Haruki Murakami
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
— Woodrow Wilson
Exactly that girl, not the prettiest, but the no-makeup and kind of ordinary-looking girl he'd chosen to be happy
— Donna Tartt
I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.
— Romola Garai
The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings ...
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
— Bernie Mac
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
— Scilla Elworthy
I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not beordinary. — Smith Wigglesworth
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin
— Jonathan Sacks
