It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
An ordinary day. I get up early, drive to the airport, from there driving to the arena where we wrestle. Then if… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them… — Ian Kiernan Copy Share Image
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompletenessunited, such strength of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer,… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm,… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image