I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did,… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With… — Alain LeRoy Locke Copy Share Image
“Life is made more of struggle than celebrations. It is made more of failures than victories. It is made less of yes… — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There's not a drop of hero's blood in my whole body, so spare me the praise. I'm just an ordinary guy, and… — Hiroshi Sakurazaka Copy Share Image
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful aspects of service - being different. What is WOW? WOW! is great service! WOW! separates the EXTRAordinary… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
“If we see their (Navajo) lives and festivals as fantastic and our lives as ordinary, we come to writing with a sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists,… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image