We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders… — Jane Jacobs 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
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
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
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
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and… — Brigid Lowry Copy Share Image
The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of… — Sarah Posner 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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