Ordinary Quotes - Page 23

• Spotted Park Bench
  I am a park bench.
  Ordinary words cannot
  express my thoughts on birds.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Bird, Benches, Parks

  J. Patrick Lewis (2014). “If You Were a Chocolate Mustache”, p.98, Highlights Press

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• The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

  Lew Welch

  Ordinary Days, Persian, Worst

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• The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

  Sarada Devi

  Men, Play, Differences

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

  Sarada Devi

  Misery, God Love, Results

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• But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Religious, Sleep, Political

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• The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

  Steve Buyer

  Teenage, Sacrifice, Past

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• I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

  Edward Witten

  Black, Fields, States

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• An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

  Lionel Blue

  Said, Jew, Rabbi

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• No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

  David Jenkins

  Swag, Language, Particular

  The Guardian, December 24, 1984.

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• You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Effort, Everyday

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Character, Math

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• Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

  Laozi

  Sex, Cells, Mind

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• By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

  Winston Churchill

  Clever, Latin, Learning

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Simple, Greatness, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.122, Discovery House

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• When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots.

  Rajneesh

  Roots, Apathy, Found

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• In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Mean, Exercise

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• Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Rain, Mountain Ranges, Design

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Sound, Doe

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• The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Church, Helping, Problem

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Love, Peace, War

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• Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

  Robert South

  Wise, Men, Mind

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.171

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• I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sorry, Men, Language

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• What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

  Susan Sontag

  Opening Up, Healthy, Doe

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• A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

  Marcel Herrmann Telles

  Opportunity, Excellence, Operations

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