We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.
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.
Joy is found in the simple and ordinary things of life: the smile of a newborn baby, the kiss from a sweet new puppy, and the warm sunshine on a spring day.
An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial!
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.
I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
