I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. — Morley Baer Copy Share Image
This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
“Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There's not a drop of hero's blood in my whole body, so spare me the praise. I'm just an ordinary guy, and… — Hiroshi Sakurazaka Copy Share Image
“ordinary may think a story ; but extra-ordinary will create a destiny...!” — felix a samuel Copy Share Image
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
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