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Source: Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online

“Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.”

People Two Whole Together Simple Produce Kissing Ordinary Sake Communion One You Love Being Together Simple Words

Author:Elfriede Jelinek

“The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.”

“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.”

Way Years Actors Found Voice Natural Simple Five Stage Ordinary Hollywood Studios Five Years Gestures Eliminating

Author:Walter Huston

“Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.”

“The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.”

Men Book Government Simple Ordinary Complexes Affair Ill Practicals Historian Mentor Practical Life

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”

Thinking Mind Together Used Simple Emotion Consciousness Color Speech Perception Ordinary Weight Embrace Complexes Including Affair Sensations Items Texture Psychologist

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.”

“If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.”

Ifs Persons Light Grows Differences Simple Emotional Judgment Capable Ordinary Evidence Prejudice Resistance Contradiction Exposed Bias Threatened Misconception New Knowledge Rectify

Author:Gordon Allport

“In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.”

Kind Made Wanted Used Simple Common Objects Ready Late Ordinary Drawing

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.”

Men Book Age Nations Dark Simple Theory Ordinary Medicine Forgotten Medical Dark Ages Ordinary Man

Author:John Wesley

“Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.”

World Simple Holy Achievement Messages Ordinary Insane Obedience Sanity Heroic Robust Asylums Insane Asylum

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.”

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Author:Mark Shields

“I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.”

Persons Enjoy Simple Ordinary My Family Simple Life Ordinary Things Uncomplicated

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.”

People Soul Hate Simple Attitude Nice Blood Eternal Ordinary I Hate Lists My Soul Ordinary People Loathe Ordinariness

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.”

People Thinking Should Believe Looks I Believe Easy Simple Laughing Taken Ordinary Photographer Photograph Touched Ordinary People Wince

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.”

People Way Whole Life Is Social Simple Race Class Ordinary Built Gender Visuals Primitive Stereotype Social Life Differentiation Social Status

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.”

Ifs Way Writing Different Simple Position Ordinary Deserve Day To Day Honored Good Writers Likelihood Craftsman Ordinary Days

Author:Rod Serling

“[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller aspect of the film and it's not all that complicated of a story and there's a simple elegance to it. I liked that. It is also driven by a really strong romance and ordinary men doing extraordinary things. I love that.”

“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.”

“I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.”

Humans Human Beings Simple Special Ordinary Buddhist Monk Describe Myself Buddhist Monk

Author:Dalai Lama

“It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And most of all, there is truth, ordinary and simple, just sitting there to be plucked, if only we get our lazy rear ends off the pillow of complacency. But first, we need to open our eyes to this banal fact. And for that we need a periodic bit of shakeup in the form of an infusion of wonder - fantastic literature.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Ends Facts Eye Form Literature Bits Justice Simple Wonder Ordinary Sitting Fantastic Fulfillment Lazy Complacency Pillow Peace Justice Infusion

Author:Vera Nazarian

“It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.”

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Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic

“Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.”

Important Opportunity Simple Ordinary

Author:David A. Bednar

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Trying Enough Wanted Simple Morning Alive Imagine Ordinary Shocking

Book:The Hours: A Novel

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.”

“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”

Simple Terrible Ordinary

Book:The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Easyread Edition

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Easyread Edition

“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”

Imagination Simple Ordinary Extraordinary Spheres Ugliness Commonplace Ardent

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

People Ifs Hands Community Simple Building Listening Hero Ordinary Leap Tall Boots Heroism Rescue Bullets Ordinary People Superpower Bruised Capes Tall Buildings

Book:Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.”

People Made Sometimes Simple Ordinary Extraordinary Companionship Simple Truths Ordinary Things Ordinary Extraordinary

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.”

“Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless”

Mean Simple Ordinary Noble Meaningless Heroic Vulgar

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.”

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back.”

People Needs Years Looks Long Desire Simple Taken Events Ordinary Connections Tricks Sensual Isolation Mechanism Daring

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.”

Simple Common Ordinary Everyday Marvelous Tangible Marvelous Things

Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.”

Want Humans Enjoy Simple Ordinary Enjoyment Ordinary Life

Book:A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

Source: A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

“And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.”

Spiritual Spirituality Simple Animal Flower Goes On Balance Ordinary Visible

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.”

May Mean Two Motivational Challenges Simple Results Common Business Quality Exercise Ordinary Perseverance Common Sense Inspirational Perseverance

Author:Owen Feltham

“[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.”

“My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions... I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products from the animal that our present studies deal; but with their reactions in the body; with the dynamic side of biochemical phenomena.”

“We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.”

Moments Use Simple Powerful Knowing Ordinary Wake Up Each Day Ordinary Days

Author:Orlando Bloom

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