“One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.” KnowsFeelsPersonsLostConditionsOrdinaryDescriptionDisabledDepressed Person Author:Andrew Solomon
“If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.” IfsKnowsWantCareSchoolJobsSpiritLostPayEducationBreakHealthTaxesOrdinaryMercyUniversalWorkersHealth CareBossWagesRuinedEmployersPublic SchoolBargainingFree EducationUniversal Health Care Author:Michael Lind
“Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.” IfsGuyLostNovelFiguresSixEatingOrdinaryReviewsImpetusBrosWarner Bros Author:William Monahan
“By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.” FirstsLostMemoriesOrdinarySakeDenySequenceRecollectionSnapshotsProustLost TimePetiteMadeleinesIntegers Author:Michael Lesy
“If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so important to have the charmed inscription. The only way you do it... This handbag was the only one in the shop without a charmed inscription. It's just an ordinary bag. I went into the department store in Sloane Square, because I needed a new bag, because my old one lost its handles. Then I found this one, and I said "Why is it so cheap?" and the seller said, "Because it doesn't have a name!"” IfsWayWantSaidImportantHardFoundNamesLostNeededOrdinaryGlassesStoresHandleBrandsDepartmentShopsBagsSquaresSellersCharmedInscriptionsHandbagsDepartment StoresBrand Names Author:Marina Warner
“She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there from the very beginning, a measured distance away, standing in the ordinary light like some plain house where one went in and was greeted by respectable people and was shown to a room where everything one had ever lost or put aside was gathered together, waiting.” PeopleCountryEnoughLightTogetherHouseLostEasyWaitingRoomsOrdinaryStandingDistanceDestinationBroadsTraveledRespectable Author:Marilynne Robinson
“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.” MayFoundLostIgnoranceLessonsOrdinaryMiracleSacredScaredNeighborFlightDaily LifeElsewhereFamily And FriendsMiraculousBackyardsConfrontingNeighbors Friends Author:Abraham Maslow
“I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldSoulShowsRememberMovingDiesLostSecretKnowingOrdinaryHundredSensesEndlessShow MeLimitlessVastness Author:Amy Tan
“Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.” IfsLongLostEnemyMagicCreaturesMembersOrdinaryMysteriousImmortalObscureRabbitsStarvingFamily MembersDensWeaselsSaphira Author:Christopher Paolini
“With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.” WorldWholeFatherLostStreetsObjectsChangedSceneOrdinaryEverydayDetailsEveryday LifeIrreplaceableMemento Book:The Museum of Innocence Source: The Museum of Innocence
“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.” HumansHomeAgeScienceLostUnderstandingOrdinaryEternitySizeTinyCosmosImmensityPale Blue Dot Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos
“...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because they have lost faith in the political classes, or because they feel that the really important issues are not in their power to decide.” MenFeelsMayImportantDifferentPoliticalLostDifferencesClassPowerIssuesOrdinaryMen And WomenAlternativesCitizenshipOrdinary ManImportant IssuesLost FaithUnmotivated Author:Patricio Aylwin