Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
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
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it… — Stanley Spencer Copy Share Image
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
We are ordinary people who are just trying to get by and make a living. — Nikitin Dheer Copy Share Image
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the… — Junichiro Tanizaki 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
It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
As far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Malayalis tend to be nostalgic about rustic storylines, pastoral themes and ordinary folk who lead a simple way of life. — Biju Menon Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life.… — David Simon Copy Share Image