“An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support.… — Kendell Foster Crossen 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
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Till now I lived thinking that being a man was all about being strong. But that wasnt so. An ordinary man uses… — Arang And The Magistrate Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“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
“Excuse me, please. You do not understand. You do not really understand who it was we talked with in the tent that… — Roger Zelazny 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
Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
“A woman, if she hates her husband (and many of them do), can make life so sour and obnoxious to him that… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Her mind was on fire. Cansrel. In the light of the flames his hair flashed silver and blue, his eyes blue and… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“What is it, in the end, that induces a man to go his own way and to rise out of unconscious identity… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
This parable is for some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt. Two men went up… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever.… — Barry Gifford 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 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
“As he finally stopped fighting sleep, he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or… — Ellen O'Connell Copy Share Image
We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“...he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her… — Ellen O'Connell Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“She wrapped her arms around him. "If you take away my wealth and my name, I'm nothing more than an ordinary woman… — Melissa Jagears Copy Share Image
“What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals? Insight.… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
