When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South Copy Share Image
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach… — Dee Snider Copy Share Image
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
People say to me, 'You're so ordinary. I say, 'Well, that's who l am. Do you think I get up in the… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image