Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, People Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

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Be content with an ordinary life.

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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

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I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

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Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

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This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

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