Ordinary Quotes

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.

~ Debasish Mridha

Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble.

~ Geoffrey Wood

God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment

~ Sunday Adelaja

I want to be extraordinarily ordinary. I believe that's the most extraordinary a person can possibly be.

~ Zarafshan Khan

We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.

~ Peter Høeg

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term

~ Emily Thorne

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

~ Richard Dawkins

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.

~ Adi Alsaid

An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.

~ Santosh Kalwar

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~ Kamil Ali

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

~ Daniel Keyes

All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.'There are only six of them, but they make enough noise for a hundred,' said the Abbess. 'Furthermore, a pig spoke and a goat gave birth to triplets.' And she added with fervor: 'Everything has been like this since your Bishop did us the favor of sending us his poisoned gift.'She viewed with equal alarm the garden flowering with so much vigor that it seemed contra natura. As they walked across it she pointed out to Delaura that there were flowers of exceptional size and color, some with an unbearable scent. As far as she was concerned, everything ordinary has something supernatural about it.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

APPROACHRain is falling. Winter approaches. I drive towards it. In the slow rain. In the semi-darkness. Cello music is playing in the car. The deep sad sound of the cello. It almost swamps me. Routine endeavours to swamp me. The everyday paying of bills.But I paint men walking in a city of icebergs and crystal. Some of the icebergs are red. I paint a woman swimming in green wavy water. Surrounded by desert mesas. Bright orange in the sunlight. With darker orange for shadows. I paint two people. With purple and pink and yellow and blue circles overlapping the boundaries of their bodies. Dancing.Life is not ordinary. When I see you tonight I will press my lips to your eyelids. Each one in turn. I will rub my fingertips over the skin on the back of your hands and around your wrists. I will sigh. I will growl. I will whinny. I will gallop into your smile. One sharp foot after the other.

~ Jay Woodman

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

~ Pam Farrel

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

And I wanted Jordan, because if he wanted me back it would mean I wasn't ordinary. A guy like him wouldn't settle for that.

~ Vikki Wakefield

Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary progress, newly made moments flecked like pepper into the slog and the disruptions.

~ Anne Lamott

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.

~ Tomoko Yamashita

Alecto… what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth’s super 8 films, those powers of yours… how would they react?”“I don’t know,” said Alecto, “but ordinary people like a show, especially when it’s a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery… probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how you know about Personifications, how you saw the films… they would put us in cages and throw peanuts at us, I guess.”“All joking aside, Alecto.…”“Who is joking, Mandy Valems?

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

He feels her heart race madly against his own and for a second he thinks it’s finally happened , he’s come alive.

~ M.c. Frank

I am attracted to certain types of people: the outrageous, outstanding and the one's pegged as odd. The 3 O's remind me not to be ordinary.

~ Wendo.l.

You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn,' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her.

~ Charlotte Lamb

The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

~ Sara Sheridan

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible

~ Cherie Carter-Scott

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

~ Philip Caputo

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

~ Matt Drudge

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

~ Malala Yousafzai

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

~ Isaac Newton