Quotes of Ordinary - somelinesforyou

“ We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. ”

- Uta Hagen

“ I think it's common sense. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law is nothing else but reason. ”

- Sir Edward Coke

“ Only the mediocre are always at their best. ”

- Jean Giraudoux

“ The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads. ”

- Unknown

“ We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is. ”

- Antonio Banderas

“ I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. ”

- Ernest Thompson Seton

“ It would not be a question of censoring oneself, but of using common sense. ”

- José Saramago

“ It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. ”

- Matthew

“ No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. ”

- Mae West

“ Summer has set in with its usual severity. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are. ”

- Donald Barthelme

“ Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ”

- Ken Livingstone

“ If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. ”

- George Eliot

“ Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life. ”

- California Civil Code

“ When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man. ”

- Unknown

“ Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. ”

- Aleister Crowley

“ Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self. ”

- Susan Griffin

“ More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. ”

- Joseph Lelyveld

“ The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ”

- Ernst Mach

“ Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life. ”

- Carl Andre

“ I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.... If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good… ”

- Roald Dahl

“ When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution... the clean rhythms... the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ If you look at the opportunities for economic growth within America, inner-city areas and rural areas, especially those that are heavily minority populated are a great opportunity for economic growth, because unemployment is high and the potential for consumer demand to grow is enormous… ”

- Bill Clinton
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