I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.” — Tommy Newberry Copy Share Image
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and… — Constantine Manos Copy Share Image
“No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform. — John Eliot Copy Share Image
“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. — Brian Perkins Copy Share Image
You think your days are ordinary And no one ever thinks about you But we're all the same And she can hardly… — Young Siddiq Prince Copy Share Image
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was an ordinary college kid. I drank beer, ate pizza, lifted weights and occasionally went to class. — Paul Casey Copy Share Image
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
