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If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
Eugene H. Peterson
Life
You
Somewhere
Creation
Frame
See
Sabbath
Get
Ordinary
Place
Ordinary Life
Your
Keep
Away
Start
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin
Life
You
People
No Friends
First
Politician
Numerous
Ruin
Top
Those
Rarely
Temptations
Generally
Suppose
Around
Friends
Discussed
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Profession
Many
Suffers
Second
Third
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Harold Feinstein
Life
Love
Saying
You
Photography
Joy
Witness
Will
Looking
Breath
Extraordinary
Way
Has-Been
Find
Seeing
Bearing
Feel
Catching
Pictures
Like
Look
Always
Am
Been
Oh
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Your
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet
Life
School
Will
Job
Supermarket
Pick
Makes
Always
Go
Up
Children
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Cook
Who
Lived
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
A. E. Waite
Life
Knowledge
Business
Own
Harmony
Evidence
Sphere
Aptitude
Seldom
Mystic
Faculty
Like
Very
Ordinary
Canon
Either
Ordinary Life
Works
Now
Things
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
Christopher Koch
Life
World
Difficult
Find
All Writers
Boring
Rather
Various
Both
Various Reasons
Neurotic
Writers
Retreat
Obviously
Because
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Reasons
Imaginary
Imaginary World
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
Florence Welch
Life
Time
You
Yourself
Personality
Free
Lose
Stage
Bits
Run
Like
Sensation
Being
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Life
Sanctuary
Them
Creating
Your
Flight
Keep
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman
Life
Live
Enjoy
Overall
Anonymity
Normal
Very
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Certain
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
Ian Anderson
Life
Young
Older
Living
Possibility
Kind
Outcomes
Examine
Rather
Idea
Like
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Growing
I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.
Jane Pauley
Life
Better
Take For Granted
Personal Life
Would
Take
Knew
Because
Surprisingly
Than
Personal
Just
Anybody
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Granted
Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.
John Cleese
Life
Family
Respect
People
Job
Think
Enough
Earn
Collaborators
Exaggerating
More
Absolutely
Feel
Longer
Like
Most
Well
Tragic
Up
Friends
Any
Decent
Want
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Life
Fun
Now
Bring
Competitors
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Karen Thompson Walker
Life
Value
Pleasure
Reminded
Being
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.
Liane Moriarty
Life
Love
Time
People
Living
Other
Admit
Through
Freely
Material
Hearing
Same
Same Time
Stories
Ordinary
Conversations
Ordinary Life
Really
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
Margaret Mahy
Life
Time
Other
Else
Once
Once More
Would
Some
Someone
More
Lifetime
Had
Taken
Feel
Over
Itself
Ordinary
While
Ordinary Life
Even
Asserted
Lived
By The Time
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.
Mark Haddon
Life
People
School
Become
Easy
Know
Insulated
How
Oxford
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Boarding
Boarding School
Then
Certain
Groups
Wholly
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.
Michelle Dean
Life
Good
You
Strong
Petty
Elsewhere
Characterized
Plot
Facts
Because
Reads
Handle
Manage
Often
Literary
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Transport
Who
Novelists
Away
Vacation
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
Roland Allen
Life
Needs
Trials
Experience
People
Church
Men
Understanding
Own
Living
Difficulties
Our
Touch
Sharing
Clergy
Also
Close
Personal
Personal Experience
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Ordinary Men
Among
In order to find our bearings in the spiritual worlds and see truly what is there for us to see, we need a further inner trait in our character, a quality I should like to term 'presence of mind.' In ordinary life, this is the trait we need when faced with a situation that requires us to make an immediate decision without hesitation.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Character
Spiritual
Quality
Decision
Mind
Situation
Worlds
Our
Hesitation
Immediate
Further
Find
See
Faced
Bearing
Term
Like
Make
Without
Truly
Trait
Order
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Us
Should
Requires
Presence
Inner
Need
For the most part, people think in ordinary life without bringing order into their thoughts. The guiding principles and epochs of human development and planetary evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the initiates, bring thought into ordered forms. All of this is a part of Rosicrucian training. It is called the Study.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Great
Thoughts
People
Training
Thought
Think
Guiding
Evolution
Part
Study
Development
Opened
Most
Principles
Without
Been
Human
Order
Ordered
Ordinary
Which
Human Development
Ordinary Life
Forms
Planetary
Viewpoints
Bring
Bringing
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
Life
Something
Smaller
Became
Insult
Uglier
Denied
Verses
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Novel
By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal - if I had to give up one thing, it would be the wild imagination. When the work becomes too detached from ordinary life, it starts to fall apart. Fantasy needs to have some connection with reality, or it becomes of its own interest only, insular.
Shaun Tan
Life
Work
Needs
Crazy
Reality
Fall
Own
Imagination
Starts
Too
Wild
Draw
Detached
Would
One Thing
Would-Be
Some
Give
Only
Had
Insular
Limited
Becomes
Up
Itself
Just
Ordinary
Interest
Ordinary Life
Apart
Fantasy
Appeal
Connection
Creatures
Thing
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Sidney Poitier
Life
Extraordinary
Had
Feel
Look
Because
Am
Person
Wanted
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Ordinary Person
Them
Who
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
Sigmar Gabriel
Life
Today
Politics
Business
Emotions
World
Live
Minutiae
Covered
Up
Gradually
Being
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Life
Productive
Dissatisfaction
One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.
Tony Greig
Life
People
Some People
Country
Difficulties
Interviewing
Some
About
Involved
Get
Trying
Just
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Life
You
Live
Babysitting
Extraordinary
Way
Status
Give
Only
Doing
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Meaning
Granny
Jeans
Actually
Royal
Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.
Joyce Meyer
Life
Future
Day
People
Fear
Looking
Enjoy
Related
Month
Dread
Ability
About
Steals
Looking Forward
Makes
Decade
Closely
Anxious
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Life
Them
Next
Forward
Keeps
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