180 Degrees From Ordinary

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. - Woody Allen

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

A consultant is an ordinary man away from home giving advice. - Oscar Wilde

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. - Jim Elliot

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons. - Connie Brockway

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. - C S Lewis

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde

Extraordinary people are ordinary people making extraordinary decisions. - Sharon Pearson

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right. - Tony Dungy

To reach a port, we must sail - Sail, not tie at anchor - Sail, not drift. - Franklin Roosevelt

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. - Elbert Hubbard

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice. - John C. Maxwell

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored. Boredom is a choice. - Wayne W. Dyer

Ordinary people think merely of spending time; great people think of using it. - Arthur Schopenhauer

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. - Seneca

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. - Enoch Powell

Goals allow you to take control. Instead of living life by chance, you live by choice. - Kam Knight

They are all discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. - Unknown

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. - Mark Twain

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

Your attitude can take you forward or your attitude can take you down. The choice is always yours. - Catherine Pulsifier

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. - Rita Dove

The choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. - Oprah Winfrey

Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Kahlil Gibran

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea. - Unknown

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. - Zig Ziglar

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. - William Shakespeare

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. - Sonia Sotomayor

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. - Iris Murdoch

F-E-A-R has two meanings:
'Forget Everything And Run' or
'Face Everything And Rise.'
The choice is yours. - Zig Ziglar

If you're wanting something salty, do air-popped popcorn. That, to me, would be a healthier choice than having any kind of fried chip. - Bob Harper

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We can't control the world. We can only barely control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. - David C Hill

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell