Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control… — James Grant Copy Share Image
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together. — Sebastian Vettel Copy Share Image
Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary. — Shalane Flanagan Copy Share Image
The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary… — Wilhelm von Humboldt 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
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Fish play in the water birds play in the sky ordinary beings play on the earth sublime beings play in display. — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3 — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
