Top 100 Quotes About Ordinary Things

#1. The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

Dean Stanley

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#2. Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.

Mary Robinette Kowal

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#3. If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Idries Shah

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#4. The ordinary you, the you that has to go to work every morning, the you that has to run a household, pay bills, do all of those things
that you is somehow changed into an exciting, artistic, fully alive you. That's what Paris does.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#5. Take a little time to make ordinary things extraordinary.

Emilie Barnes

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#6. 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

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#7. After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things

Georgette Heyer

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#8. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Patricia Stephens Due

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#9. Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.

Ranbir Kapoor

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#10. She wouldn't disapprove of people who gave up philosophy or literary theory to do ordinary things." "Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#11. games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things.

Ian Bogost

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#12. I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.

Laurence Yep

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#13. The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Peter Drucker

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#14. I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

David Hockney

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#15. Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Jean Vanier

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#16. Harold says one of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to Facts. It

C.S. Lewis

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#17. There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Stephen Leacock

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#18. I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!

Margarita Engle

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#19. When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.

Joel Osteen

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#20. You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

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#21. I told her how many things on earth have a fixed colour. Let us say, the green leaves. In our eyes, a red or a yellow leaf is beautiful. Even better if the leaf is shaded in several hues. So we paint the yellows and reds in our paintings oftener. And we forget the ordinary green, the best in nature.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

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#22. Powerful men tire of their toys easily. And the novelty of a pet doesn't last forever. After a while even the prettiest things become ordinary.

Kate Jarvik Birch

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#23. It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey

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#24. Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Charles Bukowski

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#25. Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

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#26. Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity?
Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.

Penelope Gilliatt

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#27. The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Ruth Reichl

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#28. When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

Agatha Christie

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#29. Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

Stanley Spencer

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#30. Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

Oliver Herford

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#31. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.

Tess Thompson

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#32. We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

Shane Claiborne

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#33. You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things.

H.L. Burke

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#34. 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

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#35. I'm just an ordinary woman who has somehow managed to do some extraordinary things!

Fiona Roberts

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#36. I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Ransom Riggs

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#37. Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.

Virginia Woolf

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

Donna Summer

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#39. There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

Vincent McNabb

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#40. When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless.

L.J.Smith

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#41. I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Eric Rohmer

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#42. Champions don't do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they've learned.

Charles Duhigg

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#43. I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Orel Hershiser

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#44. Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.

Richelle Mead

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#45. Lucien was a whole lot of trouble because he made her want things she couldn't possibly have. He made ordinary life feel pale and insipid, a watered-down version of the existence she'd tasted that had him in it.

Kitty French

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#46. One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

Edward Hirsch

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#47. There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

Norman Spinrad

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#48. For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

Anna Funder

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#49. I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

Marc Newson

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#50. The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Michel De Montaigne

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#51. When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.

Marilynne Robinson

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#52. I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

Ryan Lindley

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#53. I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

Jeff Kinney

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#54. Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

Michael Josephson

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#55. The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life

Alison Croggon

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#56. She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people ...

Nicholas Sparks

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#57. We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Frank P. Ramsey

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#58. If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Tom Kelley

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#59. Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Joe Biden

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#60. It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary.

Nathan Hill

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#61. I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#62. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy, or integrity. You will be hollow.

George Orwell

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#63. But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.

Karen Tayleur

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#64. There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other ... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose ... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.

Phil Jackson

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#65. The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Graham Swift

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#66. And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things.

Barack Obama

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#67. You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Warren Buffett

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#68. I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

Chris Van Allsburg

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#69. Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

Joni Mitchell

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#70. Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat ... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."

Caryll Houselander

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#71. In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves - the mating of the sexes, the rearing of the young, the laws of the state.

G.K. Chesterton

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#72. I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met ... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

Tracy Kidder

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#73. The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about - clouds - daffodils - waterfalls - what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in - these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

Tom Stoppard

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#74. My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Dee Snider

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#75. The holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#76. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

Barack Obama

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#77. You know, maybe if we'd met as ordinary people, one day, maybe ... maybe things might have been different. Maybe I could have loved you.

Lucy Christopher

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#78. In every time, in every culture, ordinary people have done extraordinary things.

M.R. Neer

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#79. I do feel as if ... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Kate Grenville

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#80. The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Veronique Vienne

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#81. It is the photographing of ordinary things, in extraordinary light, that produces extraordinary photographs.

David Young

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#82. The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

Alfonso A. Ossorio

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#83. He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Dean Koontz

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#84. There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

Brad Brown

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#85. Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.

Sarah Addison Allen

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#86. Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Jack Nance

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#87. Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

George Saintsbury

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#88. If you can shred on a Fender or won 'Best Personality,' you're not disqualified - it just doesn't make you more qualified. You see, God usually chooses ordinary people like us to get things done.

Bob Goff

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#89. those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.[219]

Anonymous

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#90. It's about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#91. It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time.

Robert Marion

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#92. The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

Mia Love

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#93. We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.

Oswald Chambers

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#94. They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.

Leigh Bardugo

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#95. I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than the ordinary. Clearly people want things that make their lives the way they wish they were.

John Peterman

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#96. Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gregg Harris

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#97. Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Marilynne Robinson

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#98. At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

Terry Pratchett

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#99. The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

Azim Premji

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#100. You've faced horrors in these past weeks ... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

Tasha Alexander

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