Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As a stylist, I know accessorization is essential: It is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have… — Anna Dello Russo Copy Share Image
One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and,… — Nathaniel Chapman Copy Share Image
I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in… — Hermann Kolbe Copy Share Image
The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
“No one likes to be ordinary. Everyone wants to be different. People try so hard to be different, that they end up… — Sarah A. Denzil Copy Share Image
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good. — William Lethaby Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
