Best ordinary & passion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.”

Problem Passion Vision Ordinary Glasses Furious Clouded

Book:Letters and Speeches

Source: Letters and Speeches

“Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?”

Thinking Knows Use Passion Names Religious Wonderful Expression Holy Ordinary Paid Jew Discourse Mirth Profanity Veneration

Book:The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation

Source: The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation

“love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.”

Passion Common Novel Ordinary Ruling Ruling Passion

Book:A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

“How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.”

Has Beens Able Artist Passion Energy Fire Ordinary Raises Accomplish Mood Enthusiasm

Author:Clara Schumann

“A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.”

Men Way Feels Use Passion Strong Numbers Emotion Ordinary Violent Gestures Petty Unimportant Strong Emotions

Book:This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen

Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen

“It seemed that a woman should remember the night a new life began inside her. Such a miracle should not be the result of routine or an ordinary coming together. Life should begin in a cataclysm of heat and fury bathed in the sweat of passion and urgency.”

Should Together Remember Night Passion Results Ordinary Miracle Heat Routine Sweat New Life Fury Urgency Coming Together

Author:Maggie Osborne

“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.”

“When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.”

Purpose Passion Ordinary Extraordinary Everyday Excitement Fuel Mundane

Book:The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”

People Art Sometimes Passion Literature Secret Mystery Effects Ordinary Intellect Veils Ordinary People Mystery Of Life

Book:The Essential Oscar Wilde

Source: The Essential Oscar Wilde

“I have dedicated my time here on earth to find the tools that can help each of us experience an extraordinary quality of life. I do believe that such a life can only be found by living one's true passion. Without passion, an individual gets caught in the trap of making a living instead of designing a life. When we fall into the trap of getting up each day to reenact an "ordinary" existence, we find ourselves at a level that is merely one of survival.”

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