#ordinary

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. ↗

— Socrates

#doing #doing good #good #had #harm

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#forces #got #i #large #ordinary

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids. ↗

— Mink Stole

#extraordinary #family #kids #our #ten

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#common-sense #did #doctrines #earliest #economy

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. ↗

— John Guare

#bodies #come #controlled #emotional #extraordinary

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#find #important #inside #me #ordinary

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#being #equal #ever #given #his

I don't work at being ordinary. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #ordinary #work

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary. ↗