“He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men — Tunku Abdul Rahman Copy Share Image
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“In societies where there is no shame about breastfeeding, the ordinary man is not driven into a frenzy by the sight of… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results.… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
“Why the Albanians had created the institution of the guest, exalting it above all other human relations, even those of kinship. “Perhaps… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In another of his most famous essays, Montaigne argued that to philosophise is to learn to die. I learned how to die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“It was suitably like limbo to depress the spirits of an ordinary man, let alone one with Alec's problems.” — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary… — Eleanor Dark Copy Share Image
“I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
One machine can do the work of hundred ordinary men but no machine can do the work of one extra ordinary man. — SmartMuslimAnas Copy Share Image
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“The commander of a mighty army can be captured, but the aspiration of an ordinary man can never be seized. —Confucius” — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
![“[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller aspect of the film and it's not all that complicated of a story and there's a simple elegance to it. I liked that. It is also driven by a really strong romance and ordinary men doing…” quote by Chris Pine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9f8/chris-pine-2168_aspect_the-finest-hours-reminded-me-a-lot-of-a_1281702.png)
