Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Millions of ordinary Americans may suffer from a toxic combination of ignorance and amnesia, but the victims of U.S. coups, invasions, and… — Mehdi Hasan 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
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We… — William Landay Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more… — Edouard Seguin Copy Share Image
An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
