#ordinary

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#every #extraordinary #hope #human #human life

Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...always talked about everything as if it was over ("Remember last night?"), while holding out the possibility that whatever happened could be rerun. Neil didn't have that sense of things. He thought people shouldn't romanticize ordinary life. "Our struggles, our little struggles," he would whisper, in bed, at night. Sometimes he or she would click on some of the flashlights and consider the ceiling, with the radiant swirls around the bright nuclei, the shadows like opened oysters glistening in brine. (In the '80s, the champagne was always waiting.) ↗

— Ann Beattie

#ordinariness #ordinary-life #men

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#forgetting #heroes #news #our #relish

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#buy #courts #expensive #hints #images

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#extraordinary #shakespeare

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. ↗

— James Buchan

#chances #conditions #despots #each #east

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#extraordinary #going #great #heads #i

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary. ↗

— Alan Davies

#extraordinary #light #places #principle #same

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. ↗

— Viola Davis

#did #extraordinary #extraordinary things #fascinating #help