Ordinary Quotes

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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent… — Vladimir Lenin
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The… — Unknown Author
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that,… — Samuel Mockbee
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and… — Rajneesh
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is… — Michael A. Ledeen
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is. — Robert Fulghum
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and… — A. Powell Davies
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. — Lawrence Hargrave
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always… — Winston Churchill
The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people. — Paulo Coelho
...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of… — David Hawkins
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very… — Steven Pinker
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college;… — Sharon Olds
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. — Danny Boyle
True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time. — Howard W. Hunter
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards… — Daniel Ellsberg
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life,… — William Banting
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen

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