Quotes of: Ordinary-person Keyword

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Michael Crichton

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

Angela Hayes: I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.

American Beauty

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

Al Alvarez

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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.

Aslan Maskhadov

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal ...

Art as a Social System

There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the c...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'affirmation of ordinary life.' It is the simple idea that ordinary people are fallible, and yet th...

What's So Great About Christianity

Meditation is misunderstood as something you envision in your head, when in fact it is something to be seen with your own eyes. What you begin to see is that the place where you thought your life occurred - the cave of rumination and memory, the caul...

Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life

People who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were. She'd said it was always a mistake, to believe those people were different, special, inf...

William Gibson

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Celebration of Discipline

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Canada

Always lust for the best, because life is too short to be an ordinary.

The Cavalier

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary.

Instructing an Heiress

Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary.

A Mountain of Crumbs

CRITIC OR CITRIC? Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talented Kamil Ali

Profound Vers-A-Tales

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Why Men Fight

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Philip Levine

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Kenneth Koch

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Marv Albert