For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate… — Novalis Copy Share Image
I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this,… — Vladimir Semichastny Copy Share Image
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
