Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. — Daniel Quinn 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
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary. — Thomas Leonard Copy Share Image
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't understand what makes them… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators… — Whiting Williams Copy Share Image
We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“There is nothing remotely ordinary about you, accept it. I'll show you what you are." "And what am I?" "Mine. I will… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“But Sarah, my dear, don’t wish for excitement. Interesting doesn’t always mean good. Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“RVM Thoughts for Today - " Dare to be different.The world is full of the Ordinary . ” — RVM Copy Share Image
“She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If you are a very ordinary human being, nothing affects you, nothing bothers you, and nothing troubles you. That's how I live… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.” — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
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