Ordinary Quotes - page 10

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit. (John Maynard Keynes)
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers. View quote
Adam Smith
To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity. View quote
Adam Smith
I'm completely ordinary. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming. View quote
Martin Luther
Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness there is a unified, nonlocalized, and subtle layer: "pure consciousness.”. View quote
Ervin László
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. View quote
Colum McCann
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are. View quote
Mark Nepo
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. View quote
Mark Haddon
I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white. (Masashi Kishimoto)
I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices. View quote
Megan Chance
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. View quote
Norman Wisdom
There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things. View quote
Neal Shusterman
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. View quote
Norman Spinrad
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life. View quote
Andrew Solomon
It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
Fields medalists are nothing out of the ordinary at Princeton-you sometimes find yourself seated next to three or four of them at lunch! View quote
Cédric Villani
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. View quote
Walter Lord
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. View quote
Philip Yancey
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. (Fred Saberhagen)
It is a religion in so far as, having shown us the course of ordinary evolution, it also puts before us and advises a method of shortening that course, so that by conscious effort we may progress more directly towards the goal. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
For the purpose of this treatise we may, perhaps, define it as the power to see what is hidden from ordinary physical sight. It will be as well to premise that it is very frequently (though by no means always) accompanied by what is called clairaudience, or the power to hear what would be inaudible to the ordinary physical ear; and we will for the nonce take our title as covering this faculty also, in order to avoid the clumsiness of perpetually using two long words where one will suffice. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family. View quote
Adriana Trigiani