Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The one thing we can count on is that time will pass; day will become night, and the sunrise will bring with… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
“But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders.… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood;… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren's voice... I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else.… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
That's exactly how I felt. So getting to suddenly know this young [princess] Margaret, who had this extraordinary life - it was… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“There is a plan for you, Good Thunder. You will be an honored leader. The hand of the creator has reached into… — Kerry Casey Copy Share Image
Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image