Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
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
I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage?… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see,… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy 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
The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
See this ain't nothing that you use to. Out of the ordinary unusual. You gotta have the mind state like I'm so… — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image