One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take… — Vladimir Lenin 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
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet,"… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles.… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful! — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image