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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything. -- Anthony de Mello
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. -- Ernst Mach
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid -- Heinrich Heine
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Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility. -- Vincent de Paul
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice? -- Pema Chodron
Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly. -- Richard P. Feynman
Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of. -- Zhang Ziyi
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much. -- Mary Oliver
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say. -- Arlen Specter
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. -- Thomas Hooker
Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public. -- Michael Schudson
It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily. -- Natalie Dormer
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. -- Catherine the Great
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily. -- Eleanor Catton
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject. -- Byron White
In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore. -- Pico Iyer
The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe. -- Leonard Susskind
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think. -- Julian Baggini
Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me. -- Johnny Vegas
By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt. -- Simon Greenleaf
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments. -- Charles E. Wilson
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. -- Mitt Romney
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. -- Edward Sapir
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. -- John Crowe Ransom
I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet. -- Ashley Jensen
I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange. -- Alexis Bledel
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. -- Johannes P. Muller
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. -- Geoffrey Fisher
I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done. -- Mickey Gilley
There are various grades of spiritual sight. One grade enables a man to see the ordinarily invisible ether with the myriads of beings that invest that realm. Other and higher variants give him the faculty to see the desire world and even the world of thought while remaining in the physical body. -- Max Heindel
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to. -- Danny McBride
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. -- Gordon Allport
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. -- H. L. Mencken
You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. -- Andy Warhol
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as. -- Aldous Huxley
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily. -- David Byrne
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded. -- M. Scott Peck
God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling. -- Max Anders
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously. -- Santosh Kalwar
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel. -- Aldo Leopold
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct -- Aldo Leopold
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. -- Michel de Montaigne
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. -- Dorothy Day
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life. -- Stella Adler
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors. -- Ayn Rand
What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily. -- Abraham Maslow
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New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont. -- Murray Bookchin
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist. -- Marcel Proust
An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business. -- Warren Buffett
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined. -- Charles Nodier
It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him. -- Dan Stevens
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised? -- Blaise Pascal
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project. -- Louis Finkelstein
Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match. -- Frank Woolley
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun. -- India de Beaufort
Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness. -- Steven Furtick
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals. -- Mark Twain
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. -- James A. Baldwin
If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry. That's the way I ordinarily watch the world around me. -- Pattiann Rogers
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings. -- Milton H. Erickson
When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death -- Tom Robbins
All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears. -- Jay Michaelson
In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore. -- Pico Iyer
It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world. -- Jim Goad
The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily. -- Bill Nighy

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