“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.” ArtJobsLeftCircumstancesStandardsOrdinaryDisappearLeft Alone Author:Michael Kimmelman
“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.” LittlesEnoughFatherLeftEasyLibertySecurityOrdinaryRemainsBetrayedArbitraryEver AfterDungeonsExpired Author:Frances Osborne
“You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.” HumansWellsFeelingsLeftOrdinaryPerfectionTime Left Author:Patricia Wentworth
“My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.” GamesLeftNeededOrdinaryCourtScreensJumpers Author:Marv Albert
“I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.” PeopleTwoCoursesLeftInterestEconomicNeededBirdOrdinaryConcernWingsCrashOrdinary PeopleEaglesBargainsRight WingLeft WingAmerican Eagle Author:Bill Moyers
“An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.” WorldMatterFactsTodayPastLeftOrdinaryHistoricalArrangementsWorld TodayFootprintHistorical Facts Book:Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
“Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.” WantTryingIdeasChoicesLeftHoursDecisionWalksFeetOffersOrdinaryCornersInvisibleWakingOverlookedOur ChoicesOpulenceActual Life Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.” IfsKnowsMenImportantMightWould BeDiesLeftFourDyingMissingHe ManNeededFindingsOrdinaryConcernedDecidedExpertsOne ManMeaninglessAppointmentsOrdinary ManKnocked Down Author:William McIlvanney
“I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.” PeopleWorldNeedsMayI CanHelpingLeftFocusAmountNormalOrdinarySmokingOrdinary PeopleDo The BestNeed HelpStop Smoking Author:Joe Eszterhas
“There are people who disagree with the left, and that will not be tolerated. People who disagree with them, whether they are high judges, whether they are prosecutors, whether they are average ordinary every day citizens, it will not be tolerated.” PeopleLeftJudgingCitizensOrdinaryAverageDisagreeProsecutor Author:Rush Limbaugh
“All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.” PeopleWantLeftForceCommonPayGroupsOrdinarySoldierDeterminedLeft AloneSmall Groups Book:Empire Source: Empire
“Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't understand what makes them come out like that!" "Hunger," said Jem. "Were you think about blood?" "No." "Were you thinking about eating me?" Will inquired. "No!" "No one would blame you," said Jem. "He's very annoying.” ThinkingSaidLeftBloodEatingOrdinaryBlameHungerTongueTeethFlatsAnnoyingJem Author:Cassandra Clare
“Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.” PeopleWritingHeartBookGodHomeMightWinningLeftSpeakReligiousLordFiguresOrdinaryBibleLibraryMemoirSpokesConquestHistoricOrdinary PeoplePosterity Author:Ravi Zacharias
“Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.” IfsKnowsYearsDoeStillsLeftSawsOrdinaryDeserveFiftyWakingRest Of Your LifeDeathbedWaking Life Book:The bridge Source: The bridge
“The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.” MenMindMadeMomentsSeemsPainTurnsChoicesLeftRealizingDecisionOne DayOrdinaryEverydaySpreadSomedayDestinationCanvasEveryday LifeInsignificantTurn-onDotsUnfamiliarMeasure Of A Man Author:Kristin Hannah
“Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind." "Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles." "The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.” PeopleBelieveIdeasMatterMomentsSpiritTurnsLeftI BelieveBehindsOur LivesOrdinarySkinsCornersI Believe InStoresGhostHauntingGroceriesThings That MatterGrocery StoresPavementOrdinary Moments Author:Christina Baker Kline
“The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.” TryingMadeStatesFactsCareChoicesLeftDifficultMistakeClassHonestCrimeCitizensProtectOrdinaryGunPoliceSafetyBlameMade ItGun ControlRulingMiscellaneousPro GunFounding Fathers GunPublic SafetyLocalityOrdinary CitizensGun SafetyGun Crime Author:Malcolm Wallop
“For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.” PeopleWorldLongEndsCountrySufferingLeftNaturalBenefitsOrdinaryResourcesSilentInjusticeProfitWitnessAssetsRegimesOrdinary PeoplePoorestNatural ResourcesBackyards Author:Nick Clegg
“How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.” WayTryingYearsHas BeensScienceLeftResearchOrdinaryInstanceMortalsMathematicalHeatSwimMathematicianSuperiorityEquationsSink Or SwimDifferential Equations Author:Clifford Truesdell
“Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely.The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers. Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim apostle.” MenHumansLeftMemoriesPerfectRaceChristianityMillionsSeriousBehaviorOrdinaryConsciousHuman RaceThis DayFollowersSolitaryFoundersSectionsApostlesMuhammadOrdinary LifeCanonPerfect ManEminence Author:David George Hogarth