Quotes of: Ordinary Keyword

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Anthony Kennedy

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Robert South

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.

Andy Hertzfeld

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Anuj Somany

That which is ordinary, is the most beautiful rare treasure you will thirst to find in the artificial world.

Wayne Chirisa

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice - the very worst - but the fact that she makes a choice at all, the fact that she engages the Devil in a debate which co...

Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

She knew how breakups went from hearing other girls complain about them. First the pulling away, the gradual refusal to return notes or phone calls. The vague messages saying nothing was wrong, that the other person just needed a little space. Then t...

City of Fallen Angels

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun, fear, and self are one. What is exhilarating is...

The Snow Leopard

Dr. Kim couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a bowl of pure white rice. What was a bowl of rice doing there, just sitting out on the ground? She figured it out just before she heard the dog's bark. Up until that moment, a part of her had hoped ...

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, ...

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention...

Practical Mysticism; and, Abba: Meditations on the Lord's Prayer

The Master doesn't try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never has enough. The Master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always ding things, yet many more are le...

Lao Tzu

The human body is the most ordinary of things, yet also the most extraordinary.

Co-ed Naked Philosophy

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

The Dark Mirror

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Handle with Care

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

Building a Character

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt