Ordinary Quotes

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

I am an ordinary person.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.