Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

Joe: Dude, where'd she dump you, man? Lloyd Dobler: In the car. Denny: Oh man, your car? Man, Dissed in the Malibu. Thats your castle, man.

Say Anything...

Berge sollte man mit möglichst wenig Anstrengung und ohne Ehrgeiz ersteigen. Unsere eigene Natur sollte das Tempo bestimmen. Wenn man unruhig wird, geht man schneller. Wenn man zu keuchen anfängt, geht man langsamer. Man steigt auf den Berg in eine...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese

If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat.

Finnish

The wise man who does not put his knowledge into practice is like a bee that gives no honey.

Iranian

The one-eyed man thanks God only when he sees a man blind in both eyes.

Nigerian

The fool sings a love song to his wife, the wise man will talk about his dog.

Turkish

The wise man says what he knows; the fool doesn't know what he is saying.

Turkish

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Confucius

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Sophocles

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Frank Dane

Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

John F. Kennedy

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

William McKinley

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, t...

Celebration of Discipline

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

Catching Fire

Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and su...

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence. I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open. I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness. I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds.

Divine Ordinariness