Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods,...
democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men an...
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
No matter what chains are broken, slavery is a condition of the heart.
The ordinary can be like medicine.
What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant .
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.
I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.
Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.
We were not put on this earth to be ordinary, we were created to be extraordinary.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
