The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
“When you start to find the world ordinary and no longer see magic in the beauties of nature, it means that the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything;… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content… — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
When you stand out in a small town or at work,or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really awful.… — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
She [Hillary Clinton] was extremely careless with handling national security information.If she were just an ordinary person, she would be denied a… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image