Gautama Buddha Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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

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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Soul Quotes , Ordinary Quotes

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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Ordinary people can bring about change.

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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

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There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Ordinary Quotes

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

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Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Ordinary Quotes , Sacred Quotes

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

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I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Ordinary Quotes , Benefits Quotes

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Class Quotes , Ordinary Quotes

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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