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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.
The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.
They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.
Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Malayalis tend to be nostalgic about rustic storylines, pastoral themes and ordinary folk who lead a simple way of life.
As ordinary citizens, we don't spend much time reading about and thinking through the creation of new laws or amendments of old ones.
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.
Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.
[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.
Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die
I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.
I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.
I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives
I always believe in trying something extra-ordinary and fighting against myself, gives me the biggest confidence boost.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.
Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.
There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
...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 everyday life.
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.
The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.
