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The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. - Daniel P Moynihan Quotes
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language. - Werner Heisenberg Quotes
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. - Honore De Balzac Quotes
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poets metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. - William H Hunt Quotes
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. - Rob Lowe Quotes
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. - Jean Paul Richter Quotes
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. - Edvard Munch Quotes
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. - Robert Bresson Quotes
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years experience can accomplish a lot, but it cant access the hidden places. - Jeanette Winterson Quotes
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone elses life. - Margaret Mahy Quotes
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. - Charles Darwin Quotes
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. - Edward Witten Quotes
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country. - Jurgen Habermas Quotes
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard Quotes
I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. - Fritz Sauckel Quotes
The ordinary bronze powder is, as before mentioned, made from an exceedingly thin leaf of beaten metal, resembling an ordinary leaf of gold. - Henry Bessemer Quotes
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. - Balthus Quotes
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the worlds bulwark of liberty. - Steve Buyer Quotes
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. - Loren Eiseley Quotes
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. - Jean Paul Quotes
Some worship such men as have been eminent in former times for virtue or glory, not only as ordinary deities, but as the supreme god. - Thomas More Quotes
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity. - Charles Francis Richter Quotes
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. - George Will Quotes
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. - William Hazlitt Quotes
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrels heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. - George Eliot Quotes
Were all pretty ordinary on paper. - Michael Bergin Quotes
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body. - Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. - Graham Greene Quotes
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. - Hermann Hesse Quotes
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