Famous quotes containing the word ordinary:
“No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.”
—David Jenkins (b. 1925)
“Happiness is a matter of ones most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for ones ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“The ordinary manwe have to face it: it is every bit as true of the ordinary Englishman as of the ordinary Americanis an Anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesnt want to be governed.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
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