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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

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. — Mason Cooley

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. — Jim Rohn

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things. — Idries Shah

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really. — Mariel Hemingway

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution. — Emile Zola

Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life. — Shannon L. Alder

If you discover the secret of diligence then you will not be an ordinary person — Sunday Adelaja

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

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded. — Amy Tan

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

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really. — Sara Sheridan

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

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage! — Bayode Ojo

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

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself. — Jan Struther

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

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. — Edna O'Brien

I don't do ordinary work. That is not me in the least. — Desiree Rogers

What's the point? To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man. — Anton Chekhov

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

I'm not some pure heart chasing after dreams. I know how difficult it is to live an ordinary life, having to overlook each other's shortcomings. — Inio Asano

A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work. — Arnold Bennett

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

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape ... if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech. — Arthur Quinn

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

Unless you Believe in yourself, everybody see you as an ordinary stone, not Diamond. — Mohith Agadi

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

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not. — Mason Cooley

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

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people. — Wendell Berry

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. — Chuck Noll

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 will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. — Peter O'Toole

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

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child. — Edward Abbey

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 be
ordinary. — Smith Wigglesworth

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I'm a little weird. — CL

I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person. — Liu Wen

Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light. — Frederick Lenz

I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person. — Wael Ghonim

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

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. — Israel Albert Horowitz

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left. — Marv Albert