“It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“MOTHER. Is he mad, or a rascal? LADY. He's neither. He's no ordinary man; and it's a pity I can tell him… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“In societies where there is no shame about breastfeeding, the ordinary man is not driven into a frenzy by the sight of… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.… — Graham Greene 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
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
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
“Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
“You see,” she explained slowly, “I anticipated that you might send me away until you got over your anger, or that you’d… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
