Ordinary Quotes - page 8

I should like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. (Joseph Goebbels)
Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain. View quote
P. D. Ouspensky
There are no great men, there are only great challenges, which ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. View quote
William Halsey
Observers in earlier epochs might have found it equally preposterous to suppose that the world economy would one day be doubling several times within a single lifespan. Yet that is the extraordinary condition we now take to be ordinary. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature. View quote
Charles Babbage
Success in investing doesn't correlate with I. Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. View quote
Warren Buffett
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays. View quote
J. J. Thomson
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. View quote
Milton Friedman
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose. View quote
Brené Brown
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. (Stephen Leacock)
Even the most distant and exotic place has its parallel in ordinary life. View quote
Paul Theroux
What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty. View quote
Christian D. Larson
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
To listen to the interests of all, marks an ordinary government; to foresee them, marks a great government. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists. View quote
Ellsworth Kelly
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. View quote
Jean Vanier
Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands--that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men. View quote
Yoshida Shoin
As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is. (Chaim Potok)
Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it. View quote
Robert Ley
People in the business always say, "You look fabulous." You get that all the time and it kind of goes in one ear and out the other because most of the time they just say that to make you feel good. It's nice when you hear it from an ordinary person and then I appreciate it. View quote
Heidi Klum