When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation… — Dave Morin Copy Share Image
I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at… — Melita Norwood Copy Share Image
These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of… — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Rupert Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship in order to buy television stations in the United States, which is symptomatic of the… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because,… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary… — Daryn Kagan Copy Share Image
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.… — James Allen Copy Share Image
What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The biggest revenue target is the preferential rate for long-term capital gains, which raises a perennial question: Why should capital income be… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary… — Paul Gascoigne Copy Share Image
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous,… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley 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
Will: "You are not really dying, are you?" Jem: "So they tell me." Will: "I am sorry." Jem: "No. Don’t be ordinary… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image