Ordinary Sense quotes:

Send

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. -- Diane Sawyer
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone. -- Nicolas Malebranche
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. -- Christopher Lasch
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. -- Edvard Munch
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. -- Anthony Kennedy
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. -- Aleister Crowley
Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models. -- Marian Wright Edelman
The secrets that lead to extraordinary success, won't make sense to ordinary minds -- Constance Chuks Friday
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. -- Karen Armstrong
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. -- Doris Lessing
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. -- Niels Bohr
I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up. -- Nigel Lawson
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. -- Doug Scott
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. -- John C. Bogle
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress. -- Bill W.
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word. -- Christian Metz
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. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture. -- Marianne Williamson
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already. -- Simon Critchley
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. -- William Graham Sumner
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. -- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through. -- E. M. Forster

Send