Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer. — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I refuse to be an ordinary man. You say, “Why do you?” Because I have an extraordinary God who makes extraordinary people.” — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours.… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored,… — R.S. Vern Copy Share Image
“She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It… — Noriko Ogiwara Copy Share Image
Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man cannot imagine this Providence in any other form but that of a greatly exalted father, for only such a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Ordinary man to Zen Master Ikkyu: ‘‘Master, please write the maxims exemplifying the highest wisdom.’’ Ikkyu immediately writes the ideogram ‘‘Attention,’’ with… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that its power… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Lewis Henry Steiner Copy Share Image
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I… — Zoro Copy Share Image
No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts"… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
We have to be very clear about what we're doing to our music. We're giving away free albums. Now think about the… — David Banner Copy Share Image
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I'm just an ordinary man, but you make me feel like I'm the strongest man in the world. I'm not worthy of… — Jessie Lane Copy Share Image
I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley Copy Share Image