It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.
Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
The freedom of being ordinary was intoxicating; it allowed her to appreciate the subtleties of life and its music.
Every "day" born ordinary it's in our hand to make it extraordinary
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
