#ordinary

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did. ↗

— Donald Miller

#change

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#life #ordinary #life

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#blue-eyed #bright #charming #children #deepest

Reality is always extraordinary. ↗

— Mary Ellen Mark

#extraordinary #reality

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#anything #bit #cute #done #elf

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#hardships #life #ordinary-days #beauty

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people. ↗

— Jack Nance

#just #lynch #ordinary #people #sees