Ordinary Quotations | Page 5

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

I think ordinary Iraqis have picked up on the sense that the economy looks better.

I still think we're very committed and very determined. We were ordinary in execution. The injuries shook us up a little bit last week and maybe some of the boys were thinking they were only one game away from the play-offs.

It creates an aura for an ordinary person where maybe they will think twice about the privacy of their Internet searches.

I think it will take about 15,000 ordinary jobs to make up for the lost Ford jobs.

I think Lane is a very good team. But I never in my wildest dreams did I think they could beat us that bad. I honestly didn't think that was possible. And the thing is that they didn't do anything out of the ordinary ... and we couldn't handle it.

We need reconciliation. There were hundreds of ordinary people in the ranks of the Taliban. If we give them a chance, they will work for the future of the country rather than fighting against it.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

The Arts and Crafts Movement was about design for living. It was design for ordinary people. That was a passion that was represented no matter what country Arts and Crafts evolved in.

I worry about all these grand ideas we promote here benefiting ordinary people. If they don't perceive that these grand ideas work in their lives, they won't develop a higher consciousness of the issues at stake.

My biggest wish is to meet with ordinary and common people, to visit their families, that face current difficulties, to talk with fathers and mothers in the families, with veterans who experienced grief and happiness, to meet with youth who are making their first steps in life.

Members of the Royal Family tend to, and Prince Edward particularly, tend to shade in and out of being ordinary people and royal people.

Wilderness preservation is one area of environmental progress where Congress could write a surprisingly impressive record of accomplishment in 2006. In state after state, ordinary citizens inspired by these successes are working hard to encourage Congress to complete action on other pending wilderness proposals.

When it's out of the ordinary or has a certain mystique about it and is in your face all the time, it's going to get your attention. The threat begins to feel more likely. But we need to question if that anxiety is appropriate.

We have to show the benefits of democracy and globalization to ordinary citizens. If we don't put a human face on the global economy and we don't put a competence factor into local democracy, then both will eventually be rejected by ordinary people in Africa and throughout the world.

We do have overall growth. But it's not translating into family income. The haves are getting richer and ordinary people are seeing their wage gains go to rising health-care costs.

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

We wanted to honor grassroots movements by individuals. We were seeking ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Most of them are modest folks who believe in saving the environment for the future. They really do want to make the world a better place.

We're urging everybody to tell us if they see someone out of the ordinary that is not usual. One thing about a small town is that neighbors look out for neighbors so we are hoping to continue with that.

We know this is not an ordinary rape trial. It has very much a political element -- not in the court but to the outside world.

You know, $90,000 would pay a pretty long bar tab. I'm pretty sure that ordinary Hoosiers could've come up with something more creative after a few beers and some honest conversation.

Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special.

We haven't found anything out of the ordinary in financial transactions. Normally people get some cash when they get ready to go somewhere.

Those aren't ordinary freshmen. They have some toughness to them. You saw them hit some big shots tonight.

We are in the middle of spring break, and it is hard on the girls. They are out of the ordinary thing that they do. (Today) is their only real day of spring break.

We are determined to keep this organization as vibrant as it was throughout our campaign. There are a lot of ways to make change. We are leaving one track, but we are going on another track that will take back America for ordinary people again.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Thus, in ordinary language, the word Capital is sometimes used as comprehending every species of Wealth, and sometimes as confined to Money.

The Patriot Act debate has come a long way, but there is still more that needs to be done to protect the rights of ordinary Americans. It is clear that there is building skepticism about the administration's approach to national security and civil liberties, and the ACLU and its bipartisan allies will continue to speak out in defense of all Americans' fundamental civil liberties and constitutional rights.

We pride ourselves on empowering ordinary citizens to be the Sierra Club where they live. In essence we're asking local leaders to be members of boards of directors in local organizations and to run them. We're asking them to take on administrative tasks, which has to come with the territory of being a leader, but it's not something that they initially got involved with the Sierra Club to do.

We did spent a lot in the construction of stadiums and gymnasiums for 2008 Olympics. But they will all serve for ordinary people after the Games and should not be totally included in our budget.

We are going to Washington to let the world people know how the U.S. government has turned their back on us - the ordinary people of New Orleans who have worked hard all our lives. Every Katrina survivor: get on board and let's fight for the help we need, and deserve, to return and rebuild our homes and communities.

To me, Valentine's is a special day. I realized that not many girls would get anything and it would be an ordinary day. I figured I'd take the initiative and put a smile on their face.

Volunteers don't have to spend a lot of money. They can just do ordinary things.

Today, we call for a global coalition of women economic decision-makers committed to making change happen in the lives of ordinary women and men on the ground. It is important to act now.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

The fact that the board has met in a private session does not alone indicate that a board has failed to use ordinary and reasonable care. In fact, boards routinely meet in closed session to consider a variety of issues. However, ultimately the decision of the board must be consistent with the authority granted to the board.

The existing record suggests that Judge Roberts lacks sufficient appreciation for how the law affects ordinary people.

What we saw tonight wasn't anything out of the ordinary concerning what (Smith) can do. He's a super competitor and doing that (benching) to a guy like him is kind of devastating. But he took it like a man and worked hard in practice and worked hard all week. Then he comes out and shows you why he should be in the lineup.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

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.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

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.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are.

Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.

Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases...

The ordinary is the divine.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

We're trying to improve ordinary people's confidence in the European Union, ... not a bureaucratic monster.

There are a lot of people out there that dont believe that space tourism is viable or real. A lot of people think youve got to be NASA or youve got to be a world government to do this kind of thing. What were doing here is proving to ordinary people that you can make this happenand that personal spaceflight is just around the corner.

There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.

We came here talking about how this was a big game, not an ordinary game. We needed this win. We were on our home floor. It's important to protect the home court. If you can do that, you have a good chance of winning a Pac-10 championship.

We owe these men and women something above and beyond ordinary people.

When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'