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Ordinariness Quotes (page 15)

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. Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. Alain de Botton
Haruki Murakami quote: "I've got tons of things I don't understand about myself. We're..."
I've got tons of things I don't understand about myself. We're both normal "ordinary Haruki Murakami
Agatha Christie quote: "Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!"
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea! Agatha Christie
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of..."
A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius. Edgar Allan Poe
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath. Dorothy L. Sayers
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Stephen King quote: "I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean..."
I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life. Stephen King
Some six weeks ago I was allowed by the doctor to have white bread to eat instead of the coarse black or brown bread of ordinary prison fare. It is a great delicacy. It will sound strange that dry bread could possibly be a delicacy to any one. To me it is so much so that at the close of each meal I carefully eat whatever crumbs may be left on my tin plate, or have fallen on the rough towel that one uses as a cloth so as not to soil one’s table; and I do so not from hunger—I get now quite... Oscar Wilde
The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary. Albert Schweitzer
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. Jodi Picoult
It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (good, ordinary, forward causation). Steven Pinker
George Orwell quote: "Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just..."
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. George Orwell
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs... Doris Lessing
Can you spell everything?" asked Milo admiringly."Just about," replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. "You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided tha? Norton Juster

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