Ordinary Quotes
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday's 'wow' quickly becomes today's 'ordinary'.
Once again, some potentate, sadly caught up in anachronistic claims of nationalist interests, is provoking and fomenting conflicts, whereas ordinary people sense the need to build a future that, will either be shared, or not be at all. Now in the night of the war that is fallen upon humanity, please, let us not allow the dream of peace to fade!
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk.
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl.
I don't work at being ordinary.
Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
We're more popular than Jesus now.... Jesus was alright but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Men who think deeply say little in ordinary conversations.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
Just as in ordinary life a man with a fixed life-goal... will always be superior to others who live aimlessly.
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