Quotes of: Ordinariness Keyword

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Leonard Baskin

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it--pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. "Artistic" fear, on the other han...

Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

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

The Confessions of a Misfit

We can't out-dream our Creator when it comes to our marriages

Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Russell Banks

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

Tell Me When I'm Dead

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die

The Vast Fields of Ordinary

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Neal A. Maxwell

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

Peter Deunov

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

William Banting

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It’s about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

Julianne Moore

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you ...

John Updike