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Image of Terry Pratchett
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Gore Vidal
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
- Gore Vidal
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Image of Daniel Quinn
Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.
- Daniel Quinn
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Image of Abraham Verghese
If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
- Abraham Verghese
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Image of Mark Batterson
If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.
- Mark Batterson
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Image of Libba Bray
There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
- Libba Bray
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Image of Jerry Bridges
Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.
- Jerry Bridges
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Image of Starhawk
The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.
- Starhawk
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Image of Constantin Stanislavski
I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.
- Constantin Stanislavski
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Image of Thomas Merton
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Image of Alan Moore
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
- Alan Moore
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Image of Jeanette Winterson
I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
- Jeanette Winterson
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Image of Walker Percy
Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
- Walker Percy
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Image of Haruki Murakami
Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Chogyam Trungpa
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
- Chogyam Trungpa
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Image of Oscar Wilde
Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Vera Nazarian
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.
- Vera Nazarian
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Image of Michael Pollan
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
- Michael Pollan
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Image of Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
- Sarada Devi
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Image of Winston Churchill
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Frederick Buechner
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
- Frederick Buechner
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Image of J. Vernon McGee
An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.
- J. Vernon McGee
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Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Image of Stella Benson
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
- Stella Benson
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Image of Greg Plitt
We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.
- Greg Plitt
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Image of Oswald Chambers
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
- Oswald Chambers
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Image of Orson Scott Card
[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
- Orson Scott Card
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Image of Noam Chomsky
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others...If even the harshest of critics tacitly adopt these premises, then the ordinary person may ask, who am I to disagree?
- Noam Chomsky
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Image of Henry Blackaby
The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.
- Henry Blackaby
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Image of Gautama Buddha
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
- Gautama Buddha
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Image of Karen Thompson Walker
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
- Karen Thompson Walker
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Image of Sarah Ban Breathnach
Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Image of Michael Crichton
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.
- Michael Crichton
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Image of Mason Cooley
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Richard P. Feynman
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
- Richard P. Feynman
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Paul Gauguin
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
- Paul Gauguin
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Image of Stephen Jay Gould
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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Image of Seth Godin
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Jean-Luc Godard
I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Image of Jonathan Franzen
And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?
- Jonathan Franzen
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Image of George Harrison
I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.
- George Harrison
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Image of Katharine Hepburn
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
- Katharine Hepburn
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Image of Thomas Huxley
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.
- Thomas Huxley
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Image of Chuck Jones
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
- Chuck Jones
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