The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is,… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that… — Plato Copy Share Image
The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr.… — Rafe Esquith 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
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see… — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
Now when you transfer into the conscious parenting paradigm, you have to release those pressures and those fears... you actually think into… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“APPROACH Rain is falling. Winter approaches. I drive towards it. In the slow rain. In the semi-darkness. Cello music is playing in… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist. — Ravish Kumar Copy Share Image
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement. — Dick Costolo 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
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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