The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller
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CARLOS CASTANEDA The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a c...
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The difference between a committed dreamer & an ordinary dreamer is sustained passion.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the r...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the rea...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the re...
NEHRU Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
CONFUCIUS The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploratio...
JOS The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploratio...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of over...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE When out in the world things are never what they seem to be, the world looks so peaceful when lookin...
GARY F EVANS... I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms ...
WILLIAM BARRETT The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just ...
BONITA FAVRE Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is sol...
A. J. LIEBLING After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
TATE TAYLOR I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and n...
DANNY STRONG All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the in...
LUDWIG VON MISES A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you brea...
GEORGE CLEMENCEAU I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a ...
AARON PAUL An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's...
JAMES ATLAS Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
CLIVE OWEN We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.
JAN DE BONT What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and t...
TIM SCOTT It's amazing the difference
A bit of sky can make.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts...
ERIC HOFFER You either serve at the foot of a king or he serves at your foot. There is one thing that can be cou...
BOBBY W. MILLER The only difference between a man and god is that man knows nothing but pretends as if he knows ever...
ANURAAG Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
JIMMY JOHNSON The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
UNKNOWN Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Here was a federal agency involved in an action that had an impact on historic resources.
ANDREW BERMAN The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY Henry shuffled the jewelled insect back out of his pocket. It amber heart warmed light through the p...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact tha...
FRANK MILLER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
GENE HACKMAN From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. S...
RAIN Blood trickled from the corner of her (Annabeth) mouth. She croaked, "Family, Luke. You promised." RICK RIORDAN I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
WAEL GHONIM If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of Cal...
MAYOR AMABILE I really like some of the things Miller is doing in the off-season program, getting kids involved in...
JEFF STEINBERG She is tough, she is independent, she is edgy, she gets involved in the action,
AALIYAH Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for anothe...
VERONICA ROTH I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another...
VERONICA ROTH You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without act...
MIGUEL RUIZ The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a s...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a v...
G. W. F. HEGEL The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the...
HENRY MILLER If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is go...
FREDDY RODRIGUEZ To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man ...
H. L. MENCKEN The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken...
ANON. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken...
ANGELA MONET The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary ...
YUKIO MISHIMA I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an acti...
COLIN TREVORROW An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
OSCAR WILDE I'm not involved in sport, I'm commited.""Do you know the difference?""Think of eggs and ham!""The c...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.
ANA GASTEYER I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all thes...
SUNNY DEOL “A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts ou...
CARLOS CASTANEDA There is an immense housing shortage in Jerusalem,
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Look at this,' Henry called from a few yards away. His voice was theatrically shocked. 'I have disco...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She's around here somewhere. Check your pockets. She could be there. Sometimes she falls into these ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER People think in such grand terms-unconditional love, changing the world, doing the impossible. They ...
MARTY RUBIN Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Visi...
JOEL BARKER Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.
FRED WILLARD When a poor man makes a great statement,it becomes an ordinary quote,but when a great man makes an o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscri...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the Un...
JOHN F. KENNEDY This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an ide...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.
AMIT KALANTRI We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis...
JOHN GREEN Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of i...
DESMOND TUTU I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a differe...
BILL RICHARDSON Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused.
- Hephaestus
RICK RIORDAN
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2) Start no more new books, add no more new mate...
HENRY MILLER Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too...
HENRY MILLER Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so r...
HENRY MILLER The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
HENRY MILLER [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc...
HENRY MILLER Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo...
HENRY MILLER Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ...
HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient.
HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t...
HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am...
HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean...
HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ...
HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c...
HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...
HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n...
HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس...
HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa.
HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en...
HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...
HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way
HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...
HENRY MILLER One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli...
HENRY MILLER