There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results.… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime.… — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant,… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Building a country that worked for everyone was supposed to be about supporting ordinary working class families, which is exactly what Labour's… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Definitely. If I wasn't ordinary, this wouldn't feel really strange to me. It would feel very deserved and feel like vindication whereas… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
It is that the Mail constantly dares to stand up to the liberal-left consensus that dominates so many areas of British life… — Paul Dacre Copy Share Image
I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image