Ordinary Quotes

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The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working… — Paul Krugman
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not… — Seneca the Younger
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. — Mark Twain
Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical,… — Francis Crick
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. — William J. Clinton
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals. — Paulo Coelho
Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as… — Bruce Lee
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil… — Alexander Hamilton
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;… — James Madison
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must… — Alexander Hamilton
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the… — Abraham Lincoln
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. — Paul Engle
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,… — Desiderius Erasmus
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very… — Charles Lindbergh
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come… — Unknown Author
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — Unknown Author
The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the… — James Madison
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt… — Patti Smith
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to… — Thomas Jefferson
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in… — Edward Alsworth Ross
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know… — James Madison

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