Quotes of: Ordinary-situations Keyword

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Walter Savage Landor

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.

Paul Gascoigne

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

Benigno Aquino III

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

Dick Gephardt

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.

Ian Anderson

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

Sidney Poitier

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.

Tove Lo

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

The freedom of being ordinary was intoxicating; it allowed her to appreciate the subtleties of life and its music.

Christine M Knight

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

Every "day" born ordinary it's in our hand to make it extraordinary

Iraniya Naynesh

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

George Saintsbury

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

George Steiner

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

Graham Swift

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Camille Claudel

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.

Azzedine Alaia

When you drop thinking that you are ordinary, you open up to potential to be an extraordinary.

Vishwas Chavan

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

William Zinsser

I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.

Priyanka Chopra