Ordinary Days Quotes (page 2)

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• light
• people
• die

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth... Richard Dawkins

• joy
• blessed
• gratitude

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward

• god
• giving
• kindness

I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during ‘God save the King’. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so ‘enlightened’ that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions. George Orwell

• may
• ordinariness
• far

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution. Emile Zola

• home
• simplicity
• soul

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas More

• theatre
• appearance
• numbered days

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered. Ivor Novello

• fathers day
• government
• opportunity

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things. Mia Love

• eating
• good
• work

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day. Frank Lautenberg

• hand
• different
• walking

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day. Ken Salazar

• world
• genius
• either or

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day. Marc Andreessen