He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement. . . Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.
When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.
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.
The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.
. . . the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them theres a way out.
When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
