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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 path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his day-to-day life. — William Barrett

For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. — Albert Camus

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley

Spencer W. Kimball: No Ordinary Man," Ensign, Mar. 1974, 3. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. — Henry Miller

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius. — Edgar Allan Poe

Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there's no going back to ordinary. — Lauren Gilley

It's about the terror of an ordinary life" or "It's the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind." But — Joe Hill

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

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. — Nelson Mandela

The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man. — Martin Cruz Smith

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

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale. — Cheryl Strayed

Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking. — Nancy E. Turner

It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated. — Ashwin Sanghi

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. — William Stanley Jevons

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so. — Raymond Carver

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. — Thomas Mann

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born — Halldor Laxness

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. — William Hazlitt

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others. — Muhammad Ali

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star. — Ray Davies

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. — E.F. Schumacher

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization. — John Fowles

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man — Anonymous

If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption. — Helen Maryles Shankman

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man. — George Meade

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does. — Harpo Marx

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. — George Orwell

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful. — Philip K. Dick

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Quinn Loftis

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. — John Prine

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — John Dall

For an ordinary man, yes" she had replied. "But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker — Alan Dean Foster

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman. — Eleanor Dark

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded. — Ramana Maharshi

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. — Friedrich Schiller

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life. — Blaise Pascal

the lies of the creative artist are truer than the truth of the half-sleeping ordinary man — Malcolm D. Allen

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. — G.K. Chesterton

Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. — Ezra Pound

Ordinary man can try million times..but only a ambitions man try diffrent in million ways ... create new ways to solve existing problems.jj — Mahatma Gandhi

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, — George Herbert

She believed she was ordinary? Impossible! Any man with common sense would see what I do. The more she went on the angrier I became.#Ren — Colleen Houck

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart. — Sri Aurobindo

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. — Erich Fromm

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. — George Orwell

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion. — Kate Chopin

Embrace the shadows ... Breathe the silence ... Be ordinary, be invisible ... Mark the man ... Know every out ... — Brent Weeks

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist. — Hiroyuki Takei

I am no longer a Silent Brother," he said. "Only an ordinary man. My name is James, James Carstairs. But everyone calls me Jem. — Cassandra Clare

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man. — Anton Chekhov

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. — Philip Caputo

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. — Joseph Campbell

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man — Rajneesh

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots — D.M. Lee

A wise man differs from the ordinary;
in understanding, knowing and experiencing what Truth is all about. — Gian Kumar

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. — D.H. Lawrence

Ordinary life goes on
that has saved many a man's reason. — Graham Greene

I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. — Archibald Primrose

I would call him an ordinary man, but, well."
Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement. — Courtney Milan

You shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinary man. — Haruki Murakami

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

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man. — Gautama Buddha

Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days. — Jacqueline Winspear

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. — Adyashanti

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley

I am just an ordinary man, who refuses to stay ordinary. — Robin Bhan

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