Quotessence
Home / Topics / Ordinary Quotes

Ordinary Quotes

Browse 3099 quotes about Ordinary.

Related topics

PeopleOrdinary PeopleExtraordinaryMenIfsWorldThinkingWayOrdinary LifeKnowsOrdinary ManPersonsHumansWantOrdinary ThingsArtMindLittlesWellsLooksMeanTryingKindFeelsMomentsShouldMaySeemsGivingNeedsOrdinary PersonDoeMadeCommonDifferentIdeasWritingEverydayFirstsLanguageChildrenUseCitizensExtraordinary ThingsHas BeensSelfSimpleBelieveSometimesFactsLifeMightRealSaidStoriesTurnsHappensLife IsCharacterEnoughOrdinary CitizensTwoBookLightMatterHeartRealityBigsCoursesGovernmentHuman BeingsLawSpecialWholeWould BeFeelingsHelpingShowsStatesYearsDoneGivenMiracleObjectsFoundHomeArtistSoulFormLongReasonValuesCountryDifferencesEventsHandsImportantNaturalProblemSituationmore

Ordinary Quotes

“He (George W. Bush) should depart. He should go away from the presidency and let the Americans lead an ordinary life with other nations, not a life of aggression, a policy of aggression against other nations. This policy has brought about disasters to the U.S. So for the U.S. to live properly with the world and for the world nations to live in peace, this crazy man should go.”

MenWorldShouldNationsCrazyPolicyOrdinaryDisasterGoing AwayAggressionPresidencyOrdinary LifeCrazy Man
Author:Naji Sabri
Create image

“True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.”

PeopleJoyTurnsGreaterOrdinaryExtraordinarySaintVisibleDevotedOrdinary PeopleMartyrOrdinary LifeTrue JoyPersonal HappinessExtraordinary Life
Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
Create image

“The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.”

PeopleGivingHumansKindHas BeensFeelingsSpiritualJoyArtistCertainForceBornHuman BeingsNumbersOrdinaryFruitRewardsStriveSupremeLabourEarningPaymentOrdinary LifeConveyingDissemination
Author:Leo Tolstoy
Create image

“There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.”

IfsMadeRealMomentsFallBattleBedOrdinaryConstantCleanFalling ApartReal ThingsExhaustingOrdinary LifeAshtrays
Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel
Create image

“There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.”

NeedsYearsWarStoriesTodayMillionsLaughingFrontsStudentsThousandResearchOrdinaryMy FriendsYears AgoHistoricalAvailableInterviewsIranOne TimeThousand YearsLive For TodayOrdinary LifeHistorical Research
Author:Mohammad Marandi
Create image

“So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.”

PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingMeanPersonsDoeFacesTurnsEffortObjectsWorshipMessagesOrdinaryFreakMessengersOrdinary Life
Author:Brad Warner
Create image

“In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.”

ProblemRealityMightSocialEmotionWifeExamplePossibilityEmotionalOrdinaryExcellentPerceiveCheatingRepresentationTransparencyOrdinary LifePhenomenologyMisrepresentation
Author:Thomas Metzinger
Create image

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”

WayLoveLifeBelievePersonsArtI CanReasonFeelingsRealityCreativityWallLetting GoOrdinaryStrongerOne WayEcstasyImpressMarvelousCan NotThirstyOrdinary LifeIntoxicationShacklesMarvelous Things
Author:Anais Nin
Create image

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.”

WantFeelsDoeStatesMomentsInterestSpaceGraceTreeProveOrdinaryInfiniteFruitDimensionsMarvelousFurniturePolishAccordFeverIlluminationSockOrdinary LifeSurrealistPrunesInfinite Space
Author:Anais Nin
Create image

“But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.”

SoulReasonJoyGriefBehindsConditionsOrdinaryHeightContemplationConceptionSublimeGlimpseExaltedOrdinary LifeLoopholes
Book:ANNA KARENINA
Create image

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”

ChildrenMotherTurnsCompanyComfortDemandOrdinaryAdultsFellowsAffectionSelfishHorribleSelflessOrdinary LifeHorrible Things
Book:The Four Loves
Create image

“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”

LifeInspirationalGivingRealizingDealsRichGratitudeOrdinaryGratefulBe GratefulThank YouThankfulnessThankfulBeing ThankfulOrdinary LifeThankful GratitudeGratitude And AppreciationI Am GratefulExpressing GratitudeThanksgiving And GratitudeThank You GratitudeThankfulness And GratitudeGreat GratitudeLove And GratitudeBecome RichInspirational GratitudeThankful For YouExpress AppreciationGratitude For HelpWords Of GratitudeLove GratitudeGratitude For LifeGrateful For YouGrateful ThankfulGratitude For HealthGrateful InspirationalGrateful ThanksFeeling GratefulGrateful For LifeGratitude For FriendsBeing Grateful For LifeThankful For LifeThanking Friends
Book:Letters Papers from Prison
Create image

“That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.”

IfsGivingShouldHumansSoulFeelingsHomeWould BePurposeHuman BeingsKindnessOughtOrdinaryCapacityVulnerableEaseOddComplacencyOrdinary Life
Author:Marilynne Robinson
Create image

“Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.”

WantHumansSpiritGivenHalfTroubleDisciplineSolitudeOrdinaryRecognitionCodePleasantIngredientsIndispensableHuman SpiritAdequateOrdinary LifePenanceOne Deep
Author:Freya Stark
Create image

“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.”

ThinkingWayRealRememberFormCommonKindnessGraceSkillsGoodnessOrdinaryTasksInspiredSimplicitySaintRoutineUsualReverenceObscurityOrdinary LifePeacefulness
Author:Thomas Merton
Create image

“The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)”

KnowsWellsLongStillsAgeWinningVoiceFiveDogOrdinaryShadowRainTwentiesConstantFolksTerrorWoodsMonstersClarityTriumphSunshineContractsGeographyTwenty FiveOrdinary LifeRabies
Author:Stephen King
Create image

“[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)”

GivingHumansStillsMatterJesusHuman BeingsQualityPromiseOrdinaryWeaknessEternityWholenessCompanionshipSurroundingsRuthlessCopingImpartOrdinary LifeDallas
Author:Brennan Manning
Create image

“There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts.. see within yourself, if you can find it. I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me..it was magical. "We are already one, yet we know it not.”

IfsKnowsWisdomHouseHeavenFrontsFieldsOrdinaryConvincedFlyingOrdinary LifeIncompleteness
Author:Thomas Merton
Create image

“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.”

PeopleWayLifeInspirationalMayChildrenHelpingShowsHandsSeemsCareJoyDiesAsksPleasureCompassionWonderAliveCryEmpathyOrdinaryInfiniteStriveExtraordinaryAppreciationTake CareLive LifeNovelistsYour ChildrenApplesPetSympathyFoolishnessEveryday LifeEnjoy LifeRaising ChildrenAdmirableOrdinary LifeTomatoesCaring For OthersTastingExtraordinary ThingsAppreciate LifePearsLife Is PreciousLife Is GreatExtraordinary Life
Author:William Martin
Create image