Ordinary Quotes - page 3

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. (Michel de Montaigne)

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

William Wordsworth

Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

Lewis Mumford

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

Michael J. Sandel

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.

Brian Tracy

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis

I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.

Winston Churchill

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Charles Albert Gobat

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

Bernie Mac

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

David Liss

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary' and an ‘extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all. (Jody Williams)

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Kenzo Tange

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

Christopher Lasch

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.

Christopher Lasch

I am an ordinary person.

Frances McDormand

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Donna Summer

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

P. F. Strawson

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Dave Winfield

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

Martha Reeves

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows. (Matt Drudge)

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Philip Levine

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

Todd McFarlane

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.

Tracy Kidder

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

Zhang Ziyi

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