I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. — Mary McGarry Morris Copy Share Image
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent… — Frank Smythe Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“The difference between greater people and greatest people is the "est" which stands for "extra mile". Extra steps give Extraordinary results; Extraordinary… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt. — Paul Westhead Copy Share Image
I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
If it is God who gives prayer, then God often gives it in the form of gratitude, and gratitude itself, when it… — Roberta Bondi Copy Share Image
I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an… — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
I'm hoping that autism is going to get to that same point, where it becomes quite ordinary to say, 'I have autism,'… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Angels, inasmuch as they come from the Throne Room of the Thrice-holy God, usher us into the presence of God once removed… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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