Ordinary Quotes - Page 22

The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.