Ordinary Quotes

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

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.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.