“People are rotten everywhere you go. They’re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary… — Eleanor Dark Copy Share Image
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to… — William Halsey Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I… — Zoro Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
“I know that everyone in this room, Bernie Fain included, thinks I'm some kind of a nut with my so-called fixation on… — Jeff Rice Copy Share Image
“Looking up occasionally to see rare cars crossing the high bridge and wondering what they'd see on this drear foggy night if… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. — John Prine Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
