#ordinary life

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#business #canons #either #evidence #faculty

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#discussed #first #friends #generally #i

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this. ↗

— Tony Greig

#country #difficulties #get #interviewing #involved

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#himself #keep #lead #life #man

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#close #complications #connection #fact #fluctuations

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#business #covered #dissatisfaction #emotions #gradually

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#i #less #life #little #little town

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #characters #everyday #everyday life #life

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#because #better #granted #i #just

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#chat #come #cook #day #dog