Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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.
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.
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.
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
