Quotes of: Ordinary Keyword

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you wan...

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

You may be safe, but I am free.' Take advantage of the freedom that comes with your youth. Inhale life, exhale fire, and embrace the late, sleepless nights, because that's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking...

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

I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'affirmation of ordinary life.' It is the simple idea that ordinary people are fallible, and yet th...

What's So Great About Christianity

Meditation is misunderstood as something you envision in your head, when in fact it is something to be seen with your own eyes. What you begin to see is that the place where you thought your life occurred - the cave of rumination and memory, the caul...

Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life

People who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were. She'd said it was always a mistake, to believe those people were different, special, inf...

William Gibson

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Celebration of Discipline

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Canada

Always lust for the best, because life is too short to be an ordinary.

The Cavalier

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary.

Instructing an Heiress

Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary.

A Mountain of Crumbs

CRITIC OR CITRIC? Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talented Kamil Ali

Profound Vers-A-Tales

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Why Men Fight

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Philip Levine

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Kenneth Koch

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Marv Albert

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Roz Savage

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

For One More Day

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

Rachel Joyce

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.

T. S. Eliot