Top 1200 Everyday People Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

Histories of discrimination can live on in digital platforms, and if they go unquestioned, they become part of the logic of everyday algorithmic systems.

I eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables not so much meat and fish. Baguettes and croissants are not an everyday food for me.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

Getting into the senior squad was an important step for me. I can learn a lot, not only on the pitch but also in everyday life.

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

The Parisian way to be chic is to look super sharp for everyday things and then do effortless casual for night occasions.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.

I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids.

I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

I go into the crowd almost everyday and I really really really despise it when people try to steal my shoes. That is a thing where they're proabably like 'oh, you can just go out and buy a new pair'. Like yeah, but those are my shoes. How would you feel if I tried to steal your shoes?

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.

It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

When you're surrounded by majestic Norwegian nature, it's very easy to start thinking about stuff you don't have time to in everyday life.

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

Everyday when you wake up, create the intention and then commit to making it your best day ever. Seriously. Do it.

Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.

For the red carpet, I like a platform heel, but for everyday, it's mostly Converse high-tops or booties with black tights.

I do not have a genetically "gifted" body. I have to work hard everyday and I am always working on maintaining a positive self image.

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

You need to be able to find joy in something that requires so much of yourself. I have to have that deeper meaning in my work and in my everyday life.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

It's really been important for me for all these years to stay with my aesthetic - the everyday classic piece that you're not going to get sick of.

I'd define my everyday style as put together, but also comfortable. A great pair of jeans and a cute top can be so versatile.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

Surprisingly, the United States lacks federal legislation to protect consumers from an abundance of harmful chemicals in everyday products.

I don't have to do much. What I was surprised at and the challenge was that dealing with an ensemble cast who are in scenes together everyday all day, that is a challenge. It's a challenge to make sure everyone get as much coverage and attention, it got just kind of competitive. I loved it because it made it funnier, but the improv went nuts. People were like, "Oh wait. I have something better to say." "Now, I'm going to say..."

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

I believe in spending money to make your home the perfect sanctuary away from work and the stress of everyday life.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies