Sentences with phrase «most ordinary things»

I'd like to find someone who wants to have a good time and can make the most ordinary things enjoyable.

I find great satisfaction from the most ordinary things: a first cup of steaming coffee on the deck in the quiet early morning... good manners on the freeway... a brisk walk with the dog... and having great conversations in any setting.

Writers like Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard and Lewis Thomas all speak of the most ordinary things, yet find in a weasel's stare, a swollen river, a snail's strange life something far more than...

Through the most ordinary things — books, for instance, or a postcard, or eyes or hands — life is transformed.

«To remember someone who has passed, who has done some heroic deed or service to their country, but in this case it's remembering the most ordinary thing one can do.

Today, this is the most ordinary thing in the world since a lot of people find love with the help of modern technology.

My god it looks like the most ordinary thing in the world based on this trailer.

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There can be no talent strategy without a compelling business strategy,» says Bill Taylor, an HBR writer, cofounder of Fast Company and the author, most recently, of Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways.

When we think of the ordinary things that make up the world, we are most likely to give such examples as sticks and stones and tables and chairs.

Jesus says a most ordinary but absurd thing — «Peace be with you.»

Then Jesus is there, saying at once the most ordinary and absurd thing — «Peace be with you.»

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

But the ordinary things they long for, and the things that they find funny, and the infinite variety of things they dream of, and the games they play, and animals they wish they could have, and things they like to eat, and clothes they wish they could afford to buy, are not as different as the world seems to believe from what most other children in this land enjoy, or dream of, or desire.

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

In cooking or baking gluten free, one of the hardest things to get used to is that the ingredient list is usually double that of most ordinary recipes.

The only thing out of the ordinary about you is that you reached out for a solution.The norm for most guys is that they will have periods of being angry at their baby.

The most interesting thing says Pirt, was finding such heat - tolerant bacteria in ordinary horse compost.

It is 16 - year - olds from not well - off families, those who find it difficult to afford ordinary things, and those who have been affected the most by the recent economic crisis, who were also most likely to suffer from poor mental health and to have self - harmed.

If it all sounds too radical, that may be a good thing: most direct detection experiments, which wait for an ordinary WIMP to collide with the nucleus of a heavy atom like germanium or xenon, have seen nothing (see «Going underground in search of dark matter strikes «-RRB-, for example.

I'm ordinary guy in most regards except that I feel things more deeply than most.

The way bikers date is already very different from ordinary people, but there are also things you can do to make your first date with a biker the most memorable one yet.

Not only does this French drama pass the Bechdel Test with flying colours, it also goes to show that the ordinary lives of ordinary people can be the most moving thing to watch.

The most surprising thing about the third movie, set in New York City at Christmastime, is how ordinary and inoffensive it is.

The most important thing to understand is that under certain circumstances, realized capital gains are subject to a substantially lower tax rate than ordinary income.

If you have a balance sheet behind you that is not worried about liquidity, you can do interesting things by buying assets that most ordinary managers won't touch, because the issue is too small.

It's not my job to tell people what to think nor is it my job to presume to rattle their world with huge ideas or issues, but rather, through something that is just a bit out of the ordinary show them perhaps the most interesting thing that they have seen that day.

«This is in some ways the most Platonic work that Jeff Koons has ever made — taking this mundane, ordinary object and giving it a presence or dimension that makes it more real than the real thing.»

While the basics of moving to your off campus housing apartment in Akron will follow most ordinary steps involved in moving, there are a few things that will make it a unique experience, like searching for Ohio renters insurance companies.

Unfortunately, in most of the states now, texting or using cell phones while driving is just an ordinary thing, as such many people do this.

Most of our life is spent doing ordinary things.

Toddlers are so unbearably serious about the sweetest and most ridiculous things that it reminds you that NOTHING is mundane or ordinary at that age!