#ordinary

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#common #extraordinary #great #make #men

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. ↗

— David Miliband

#always #anything #clash #clear #closed

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium. ↗

— John Moody

#annual #attention #begin #circulating #concentrated

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#anything #everybody #extraordinary #lots #never

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#book writing #dirty #extraordinary #grief #publishing

An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God. ↗

— Gabriele Nanni

#extraordinary #god #intervention #miracle #tantamount

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#give #kids #ladder #ordinary #out

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#healthy #idea #illness #making #man