Quotes of: Ordinary-person Keyword

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

Naomi Wolf

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "...

Me Talk Pretty One Day

A true leader is responsible for his followers who have reposed their faith in his leadership. If an ordinary man fails, it is a personal failure. But when a leader fails, he shatters the entire ideologies, principles and morale of all those who foll...

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordin...

Richelle E. Goodrich

Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Far from the Madding Crowd

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

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

It is the small, mundane choices we make every day that cause the biggest difference

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

If you want to change the climate of your marriage immediately, start praying for your spouse

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

To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective.

Adequate: How God Empowers Ordinary People to Serve

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another. ("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1)

Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

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

Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.

Tales of Ordinary Madness