Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith

She had never had any experiences of the heart. Her only experiences in such matters were of the books, where the facts of ordinary day were translated by fancy into a fairy realm of unreality;.

The magic of baseball is that it can turn ordinary men into legends

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise

Capitalism is not an ‘ism.’ It is closer to being the opposite of an ‘ism,’ because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to

Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

A writer’s job is to make the ordinary extraordinary, to reveal the magic hidden in everyday life.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

I could not write about “ordinary people” because I am not in the least interested in them.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it’s as ordinary as anyone else’s.

It is not special to be special, it’s special to be ordinary.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

ne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Whether I’m at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.