Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.
Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.
No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.
Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.
The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
Every day is filled with ordinary miracles. You don't have to look far to find them." -Liberty
Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.
I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.
When we find the crossing point between our attitude and what happens in our life, then we change ordinary life into a miraculous adventure.
And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can't we talk about it? Why can't we ever talk about it?
She is not an ordinary girl. She is my fairy who will change my life and make it beautiful with her smiles.
Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.
Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.
The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.
I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.
He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.
