I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are ordinary spaces where people do, more or less, share neighbourhoods. In Haifa, there are whole communities that are more or… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It seemed that a woman should remember the night a new life began inside her. Such a miracle should not be the… — Maggie Osborne Copy Share Image
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each… — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones. — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to… — Ron Loewinsohn Copy Share Image
