My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true… — E. M. Forster 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
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
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
I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege to be… — Louis Theroux Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
We must investigate without fear or favour the so-called 'accounting irregularities' that cause turmoil in the markets and wipe billions off the… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand.… — Ray Martin Copy Share Image
God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image