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“It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.”

People Ifs Needs Wells May Hard Helping Bigs Would Be Fall House Nations Break Hard Work Equal Ordinary Machines Bottom Russia Block Communist Swings Backwards Eastern Ladders Tipping Bulgaria

Author:Robin Leach

“Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?”

Humans Wells Joy Night Given Existence Sorrow Summer Ordinary Human Existence Closeness Joys And Sorrows Summer Nights

Author:Louise Glück

“It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.”

Wells Used Kindness Ordinary Extraordinary Curiosity Power Of Kindness

Book:The City of Ember Complete Series

Source: The City of Ember Complete Series

“One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.”

Knows Men Wells Looks May Children Littles Home Joy Interest Wife Minutes Ordinary Fellows Assuming Affair Practicals Elsewhere Trusted One Minute Jogging Live And Let Live

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

“If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.”

“Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)”

Ifs Feels Wells Made Different Spiritual Felt Special Ordinary Interconnected Interconnectedness Spiritual Experience

Author:Julia Cameron

“The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)”

“Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.”

Ifs Wells Night Adventure Ordinary Daylight

Book:Pegasus

Source: Pegasus

“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Heart Kind Persons Enough Artist Belief Wonderful Ocean Ordinary Ordinary People Castles

Author:Anne Lamott

“When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.”

Thinking Knows Believe Wells May Mean Children Matter Hard Remember Order Courses I Believe Ordinary What Matters

Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

Wells Reason House Dark Love Is Ordinary Deserve Madness Reason Why Whips Madmen You Like It Lunacy

Book:As You Like it: A Comedy

Source: As You Like it: A Comedy

“But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.”

Wells Littles Said Seems Happened Middle Ordinary Miracle Mysterious Farms Pigs Spiders Well Said

Author:E. B. White

“There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.”

Ifs Men Wells Made Turns Strong Darkness Kings Ordinary Monsters Chains Curse Beast Vengeance Straws Fiery Ordinary Man Chained

Author:David Gemmell

“I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.”

Source: The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].

“You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is.” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]”

Knows Wells Looks Doe Said Moments Special Car Masters Ordinary Worried Cop Jackets Riddle Ordinary Things

Author:Nora Roberts

“Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”

Thinking Want Wells Long Stills Matter Seems Care Remember Guy Evil Love You Ordinary What You Want Other Guys Ordinary Things Still Love You Still In Love

Book:The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

“The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.”

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

“They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.”

“To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

Needs Wells God Happiness Success Peace Change Inspiring Successful Ordinary Extraordinary Being Successful Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things

Author:Jim Rohn

“False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.”

Feels Wells Happiness Time Loss Money Ordinary Occasions Lightness False Happiness

Author:Alexander Pope

“Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.”

“Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.”

People Knows Wells Mean Children Seems Might Suffering Interest Wealth Worry Rich Position Safe Lows Ordinary Investment Rate Riches Income Inequality Occupation Rich People Live Simply

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."”

Needs Should Wells May Art Made Book Mystery Special Ordinary Understood Art Is All Things Cooking Ill Pity Chairs Works Of Art Statues Carpe Diem Sauce Occult Carpe

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”

Wells Sometimes Motivational Ability Decision Ordinary Determination Difficulty Decision Making Assets

Author:Brian Tracy

“Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.”

People Life Wells Social Grows Known Poverty Conditions Ordinary Terrorism Oppression Insanity Void Dictatorship Well Known Ordinary People Social Conditions

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes”

Source: Legend of lovers

“The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.”

Should Wells Desire Understanding Water Sleep Effort Ordinary Yoga Method Extraordinary Woods Disappear Cooks Relax Relaxation Posture Ordinary Life Hankering

Author:Rajneesh

“Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.”

People Thinking Want Feels Wells Enough Jobs Life Is Fun Ordinary Decent Tragic Competitors Ordinary Life Collaborators Exaggerating Fun Life

Author:John Cleese

“Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Believe Wells Done Government Wealth Party Ordinary Tea Impulse Candidates Voting Voters Ordinary People Tea Party

Author:William J. Clinton

“...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.”

“Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.”

Wells Inspiration Faith Situation Divine Holy Ordinary Christian Inspirational

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.”

Wells Ordinary Personal Growth Extraordinary Effectiveness Ordinary Things

Author:Jim Rohn

“Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

Inspirational Wells Inspiring Inspire Ordinary Perfection Extraordinary Perfectionism Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things Perfection And Imperfection Ordinary And Extraordinary Ordinary Extraordinary

Author:Marie Angelique Arnauld

“Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When a so-called expert tells them the object must have been the moon or a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown.”

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