Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the… — Constantine Manos Copy Share Image
Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations. — Marcel Herrmann Telles Copy Share Image
For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Real Life - the real life of joy we are meant to be living - begins when we restore a sense of… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. — Plato Copy Share Image
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what… — J. K. Rowling 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
As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith.… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
