My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours.… — Idries Shah 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
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put… — Reginald Horace Blyth 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
Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more,… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we… — John Dee Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
“His thumb slid up from underneath her chin to along her jawline, then slowly down again to the tip of the chin.… — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
“him the ordinary man whose Buddhist spirituality often flickered, really just questing for inner silence with not too much of an outer… — Marie-Claire Blais Copy Share Image
“I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results.… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller… — Chris Pine 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
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It… — Noriko Ogiwara Copy Share Image
Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored,… — R.S. Vern Copy Share Image
A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge,… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“When a great man dies, nations mourn. When an ordinary man dies, only those who loved him mourn. When an evil man… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his… — Gerald Weinberg Copy Share Image
“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
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His… — Susannah Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the… — Brian Dennehy 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
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
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Brian and I have ups and downs like every marriage does. Although he's a legend, he's still, inside, an ordinary man, and… — Anita Dobson Copy Share Image
It's really strange, but I find a connect with Shivaji Raje through Rajinikanth. Rajini sir is born a Marathi, he's a superstar… — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image