The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports,… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions,… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. “You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?” he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“We all have heard about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. They act courageously or responsibly, and their efforts are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and… — David Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
As far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different… — Patricio Aylwin Copy Share Image
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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