When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate.… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In Burma, economic engagement enriches the regime, as the economy is controlled by the regime. Economic engagement benefits this elite, not ordinary… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines… — Stanley Baldwin 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
Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that… — Orlando Bloom 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
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
People in the business always say, "You look fabulous." You get that all the time and it kind of goes in one… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
“My tragedy is no peculiar. It is as ordinary as a street dog. I struggle and cope with my wants, my needs,my… — Vandana Yadav Copy Share Image
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