The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
- Jacob Bronowski
The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women.
- Louisa May Alcott
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
- Roland Allen
A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.
- Enid Blyton
The sun flickers through the trees and shines upon the faces of the men lined up on the porches. Soldiers no more, just ordinary men who, by the grace of God, were spared to tell their stories
- Nancy B Brewer
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
- Angela Carter
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
- Sun Tzu
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.
- Virginia Woolf
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
- Denis Diderot
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
- Sigmund Freud
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.
- David Gemmell
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
- Thomas Hardy
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
- William Halsey
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
- Walter Savage Landor
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
- George Henry Lewes
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
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
- Juliet Marillier
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
- C Wright Mills
I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!
- Peter Shaffer
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
- Tahir Shah
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
- Thucydides
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit. Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings.
- Dieter F Uchtdorf
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.
- Cornel West
- Jacob Bronowski
The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women.
- Louisa May Alcott
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
- Roland Allen
A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.
- Enid Blyton
The sun flickers through the trees and shines upon the faces of the men lined up on the porches. Soldiers no more, just ordinary men who, by the grace of God, were spared to tell their stories
- Nancy B Brewer
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
- Angela Carter
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
- Sun Tzu
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.
- Virginia Woolf
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
- Denis Diderot
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
- Sigmund Freud
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.
- David Gemmell
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
- Thomas Hardy
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
- William Halsey
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
- Walter Savage Landor
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
- George Henry Lewes
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
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
- Juliet Marillier
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
- C Wright Mills
I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!
- Peter Shaffer
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
- Tahir Shah
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
- Thucydides
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit. Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings.
- Dieter F Uchtdorf
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.
- Cornel West
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