There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle… — Joan Claybrook Copy Share Image
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else.… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying… — K. Patricia Cross Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I'm just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics]… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have… — Zeljko Ivanek Copy Share Image
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life".… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky,… — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra Copy Share Image
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms,… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Lewis Henry Steiner Copy Share Image
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
