Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“You only live at once." Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The most precious moments of war are the moments where the soldiers remember their ordinary calm lives before the war!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
“Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over.… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Tea with milk and sugar is so ordinary. We want to see a change, feel the necessity to bring colours other than… — Anuradha Bhattacharyya Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Nash’s lifelong quest for meaning, control, and recognition in the context of a continuing struggle, not just in society, but in the… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“But imagine,” said Mars, “being a comet. I want you to imagine a divine force in someone that pushes them through the… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“As soon as we freed ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time—which was nothing more than the projection of our own impatience—we… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“On the American desert are horses which eat the locoweed and some are driven made by it; their vision is affected, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and peanuts and onions in a bowl. For being a… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“Have you ever known a moment of bliss? ... Yet behold, only a little later, scarcely an hour gone by, and the… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there. — Petronius Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and… — Tony Greig Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
In our heads, only people with celebrity status, glamour and bling pop out as people who have stories. I find the ordinary… — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs 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
“If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
