Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
I really admire Nick Hornby – for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!
For me, everything that you’re passionate about always comes with a little pain. That’s how life is, and that’s how I want to live it. I don’t want it to be balanced and ordinary.
That’s important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
All players have ‘ordinary’ periods in their career and it’s hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.
The ‘Rule of St. Benedict’ makes it possible for ordinary folk to live lives of quite extraordinary value. The weak have a place to do their best.
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.
I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that’s what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
I chose to personally support Donald Trump for president early on and referred to him as America’s blue-collar billionaire at the Republican National Convention because of his love for ordinary Americans and his kindness, generosity, and bold leadership qualities.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn’t want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.
I don’t like playing to guitar players, actually. I’d rather just play to ordinary people.
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
I didn’t have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.
I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.
The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary – go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.
I’m somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it’s as ordinary as anyone else’s.
I figure I’m just one of many people. I’m not that different from anybody else, and I don’t have great language, highfalutin’ language – I’m very ordinary. So I figure if I write about myself, other people with similar feelings and experiences would go, ‘Oh, that’s me.’
Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
My hearing is out of the ordinary as others might see it, but not for me. I’m used to my hearing in the same way that I’m used to the size of my hands.
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you’re an ordinary female housewife, people say, ‘This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it’s not professional.’
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
I’d love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor’s monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
I will become a clean president. I will become a president who can retire home as an ordinary citizen and is welcomed by neighbors.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
As late as the early ’50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
When you’ve got a team who are making a concerted effort to make a batsman feel uncomfortable it can look pretty ordinary.
Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.
I’m a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I’m an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.
We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.
I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny.
On television, it’s all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
It’s a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
And that’s what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, ‘Thank you,’ I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.
My earliest memories of going to Fenway with my father are a blur: many games, me too young to care, but aware that our team ‘stunk.’ In those years, the 1960s, the Red Sox baseball card I always coveted most was not Carl Yastrzemski’s but the far more ordinary Felix Mantilla’s.
Looking back on humanity’s battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary people who one day say, ‘No. I’m not satisfied. I don’t want to wait, and I don’t want to pass the buck. I want to stand up and do something. I want to do it here, and I want do to it now.’
I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.
Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It’s an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share.
The beginning of a career is hard for many players, often because of the ordinary day-to-day problems that football and life bring.
Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That’s one of the points of art – to challenge your preconceptions.
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.
Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
