I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius. — Ellin Devis Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately,… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Problems arise from the most ordinary of all circumstances, and in a world such as we live in, these problems are generally… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
People like you to be ordinary, but they prefer you if you're extraordinary. They want you to be a star. — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
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