Quotes About Ordinary Days

#1. Do you ever have ordinary days?" she asked as they ascended the stairs.
"Why would I want them?

Zoe Archer

#2. The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.

Liane Moriarty

#3. It's always like a miracle. No matter how bad everything was on ordinary days, no matter how poor they seemed, on Yontev
like on Shabbos
they suddenly seemed rich.

Ruth Tessler Goldstein

#4. The driven, passionate ones give their best on ordinary days and that is why they are extraordinary.

Twinkle Khanna

#5. A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.

Shannon Ables

#6. On God's calendar, there are no ordinary days.

David McGee

#7. It is a known fact that the most extraordinary moments in a girl's life come disguised as ordinary days.

Natalie Lloyd

#8. It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.

Hans Borli

#9. The sheep learn to know the shepherd's voice in the ordinary days of life so that in a time of crisis it can be immediately recognized.

M. Esther Lovejoy

#10. Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

Nan Fairbrother

#11. Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

Jacqueline Winspear

#12. When you look back, most days in life seem ordinary, but there are some that change your life forever and remain etched in your memory.

Toffee

#13. Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.

Michael Leunig

#14. Suddenly realised that if he felt that he had achieved nothing it was because he had failed to cherish what he had in fact done. He had filled his days doing ordinary, unexceptional things and thought nothing of them. But they were far from nothing:

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden.

Lois Lowry

#16. The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

Joseph Addison

#17. No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Hanging laundry on a line is a very ordinary task. It is as ordinary as scraped knees and lost keys, as fixing the same simple dish for supper again, and again. Ordinary is most days, and Lord helps is if we overlook them.

Jerusalem Jackson Greer

#19. The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longest day of my life. I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds,

Carol Rifka Brunt

#20. You know those day you sometimes have? The days that seem totally ordinary when you wake up, but by the time you go to sleep that night, your whole life is divided into before that day and after that day? This is one of those days.

G. Willow Wilson

#21. Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Rita Dove

#22. The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

Lew Welch

#23. Our lives are stories built of small moments. Ordinary experiences. It is too easy to forget that our days are adding up to something astonishing. We do not often stop to notice the signs and wonders. The writing on the wall.

Christie Purifoy

#24. When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when moment to moment you live totally, intensely, passionately, then God is available.

Rajneesh

#25. The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

Emily Giffin

#26. Beyond the curve of the days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity - happiness was human, eternity ordinary. What mattered was to humble himself, to organize his heart to match the rhythm of the days instead of submitting their rhythm to the curve of human hopes.

Albert Camus

#27. Sometimes extraordinary things can happen on the most ordinary of days.

Julie Garwood

#28. In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

Alfred Hitchcock

#29. Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity
happiness was human, eternity ordinary.

Albert Camus

#30. Ordinary people who live their lives peacefully, whose days gently resemble each other, may happen one day to stop and wonder why and what for do they do the things they do and have been doing for so many years?

Haim Shapira

#31. Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think

Ann Howard Creel

#32. You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Alain De Botton

#33. The days are going to come," declares the Almighty LORD, "when I will send a famine throughout the land. It won't be an ordinary famine or drought. Instead, there will be a famine of hearing the words of the LORD." Amos 8:11

Dianne Neal Matthews

#34. No matter what the other fifty odd weeks of his life offered, here, at least for a few days, he was officially a very special person in an otherwise ordinary world.

Lisa Luciano

#35. The day had begun like any other ordinary day for Barnabas Crackle. That is to say, as extra-ordinarily as his days typically began, which were the usual for our faithful protagonist.

Brooke Warra

#36. For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.

David Hoffman

#37. Eight days the light continued on its own:
A miracle, they say, but not more so
Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone,
Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago ...

Nick Gordon

#38. And yet,
how ordinary life is
without a bit of fancy,
without a pinch of daring
to fill our days.

Caroline Starr Rose

#39. The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Stephen Jay Gould

#40. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. -

William Arthur Ward

#41. We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

Orlando Bloom

#42. Memory in its ordinary way summoned harvested fields, and haycocks and autumn hedges, the first of the fuchsia, the last of the wild sweetpea. It brought the lowing of cattle, old donkeys resting, scampering dogs, and days and places.

William Trevor

#43. We look at each other, at random and totally ordinary moments, and just say the words "happy days"! And by doing that we constantly remind ourselves that any average day with each other is plainly happy.

Andreas Souvaliotis

#44. When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Ivor Novello

#45. Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#46. In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

Jeremy Taylor

#47. I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day ...

Harvey Pekar

#48. There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Dean Young