Quotes about Ordinary People

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. Votes: 3

Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too! Votes: 3

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. Votes: 3

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Votes: 3

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things. Votes: 3

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. Votes: 3

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. Votes: 3

[Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me. Votes: 3

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Votes: 3

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? Votes: 3

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. Votes: 3

I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable. Votes: 3

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. Votes: 2

Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people. Votes: 2

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Votes: 2

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. Votes: 2

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. Votes: 2

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. Votes: 2

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. Votes: 2

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. Votes: 2

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. Votes: 2

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. Votes: 2

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl. Votes: 2

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness. Votes: 2

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. Votes: 2

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. Votes: 2

Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory. Votes: 2

Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges. Votes: 2

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways. Votes: 2

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Votes: 1

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires. Votes: 1

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. Votes: 1

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Votes: 1

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. Votes: 1

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Votes: 1

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. Votes: 1

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. Votes: 1

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking. Votes: 1

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. Votes: 1

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. Votes: 1

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Votes: 1

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. Votes: 1

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people. Votes: 1

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships. Votes: 1

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism. Votes: 1

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. Votes: 1

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change. Votes: 1

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. Votes: 1

I hate ordinary people! Votes: 0

Ordinary people have extraordinary love. Votes: 0

People want you to be ordinary. Votes: 0

Ordinary people can bring about change. Votes: 0

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

The Constitution was made for ordinary people. Votes: 0

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. Votes: 0

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life. Votes: 0

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things! Votes: 0

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people. Votes: 0

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things. Votes: 0

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen. Votes: 0

Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education. Votes: 0

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. Votes: 0

People don't follow ordinary people; they follow extraordinary people. Votes: 0

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage. Votes: 0

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people. Votes: 0

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people. Votes: 0

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people. Votes: 0

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people. Votes: 0

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. Votes: 0

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world. Votes: 0

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents. Votes: 0

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires. Votes: 0

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people. Votes: 0

Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage. Votes: 0

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. Votes: 0

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. Votes: 0

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus. Votes: 0

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. Votes: 0

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. Votes: 0

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination. Votes: 0

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go. Votes: 0

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance. Votes: 0

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me! Votes: 0

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism. Votes: 0

Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family. Votes: 0

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary. Votes: 0

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. Votes: 0

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! Votes: 0

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. Votes: 0

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it. Votes: 0

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world. Votes: 0

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people. Votes: 0

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers. Votes: 0

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. Votes: 0

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. Votes: 0

Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple. Votes: 0

The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones. Votes: 0

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. Votes: 0

The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves. Votes: 0

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. Votes: 0

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary. Votes: 0

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water. Votes: 0

People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics, Votes: 0

Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion Votes: 0

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. Votes: 0

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people. Votes: 0

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. Votes: 0

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Votes: 0

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. Votes: 0

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit Votes: 0

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. Votes: 0

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. Votes: 0

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you. Votes: 0

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. Votes: 0

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. Votes: 0

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. Votes: 0

People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones. Votes: 0

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. Votes: 0

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. Votes: 0

There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given Votes: 0

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them. Votes: 0

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. Votes: 0

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. Votes: 0

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird. Votes: 0

Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness. Votes: 0

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody Votes: 0

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count. Votes: 0

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about. Votes: 0

We often don't realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people. Votes: 0

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it. Votes: 0

Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences Votes: 0

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. Votes: 0

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. Votes: 0

Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved. Votes: 0

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius. Votes: 0

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. Votes: 0

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. Votes: 0

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources. Votes: 0

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. Votes: 0

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. Votes: 0

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country. Votes: 0

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination. Votes: 0

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. Votes: 0

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly. Votes: 0

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people. Votes: 0

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people. Votes: 0

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them. Votes: 0

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. Votes: 0

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts. Votes: 0

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent. Votes: 0

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. Votes: 0

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance... Votes: 0

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man. Votes: 0

We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me. Votes: 0

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. Votes: 0

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people. Votes: 0

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. Votes: 0

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference. Votes: 0

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism. Votes: 0

Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results. Votes: 0

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process. Votes: 0

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide Votes: 0

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform. Votes: 0

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day. Votes: 0

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. Votes: 0

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past. Votes: 0

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer. Votes: 0

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. Votes: 0

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. Votes: 0

Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. Votes: 0

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. Votes: 0

Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results. Votes: 0

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence. Votes: 0

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble. Votes: 0

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space. Votes: 0

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated. Votes: 0

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. Votes: 0

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. Votes: 0

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human. Votes: 0

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. Votes: 0

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. Votes: 0

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Votes: 0

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence! Votes: 0

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people. Votes: 0

Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things Votes: 0

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. Votes: 0

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage. Votes: 0

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. Votes: 0

There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best. Votes: 0

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera. Votes: 0

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. Votes: 0

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves. Votes: 0

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people Votes: 0

The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God. Votes: 0

He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people. Votes: 0

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. Votes: 0

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people. Votes: 0

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today? Votes: 0

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. Votes: 0

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word. Votes: 0

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary. Votes: 0

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary. Votes: 0

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace. Votes: 0

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place Votes: 0

One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships. Votes: 0

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... Votes: 0

A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives... Votes: 0

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. Votes: 0

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'. Votes: 0

You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too. Votes: 0

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. Votes: 0

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. Votes: 0

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless. Votes: 0

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. Votes: 0

The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate. Votes: 0

Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well. Votes: 0

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art. Votes: 0

I am attracted to certain types of people: the outrageous, outstanding and the one's pegged as odd. The 3 O's remind me not to be ordinary. Votes: 0

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives Votes: 0

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do. Votes: 0

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand. Votes: 0

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary. Votes: 0

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary Votes: 0

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren. Votes: 0

The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears. Votes: 0

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people. Votes: 0

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms. Votes: 0

The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears. Votes: 0

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness. Votes: 0

Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer's mind, how he operates. Votes: 0

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person. Votes: 0

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. Votes: 0

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain. Votes: 0

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Votes: 0

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people. Votes: 0

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing. Votes: 0

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values. Votes: 0

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people. Votes: 0

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. Votes: 0

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come. Votes: 0

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others. Votes: 0

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. Votes: 0

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already. Votes: 0

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life. Votes: 0

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hard-working. Votes: 0

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people. Votes: 0

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people. Votes: 0

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit. Votes: 0

I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life. Votes: 0

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people. Votes: 0

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over. Votes: 0

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. Votes: 0

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should. Votes: 0

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history. Votes: 0

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press. Votes: 0

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story. Votes: 0

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters. Votes: 0

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people. Votes: 0

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama. Votes: 0

I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary. Votes: 0

The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart. Votes: 0

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time. Votes: 0

The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me. Votes: 0

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane Votes: 0

Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness. Votes: 0

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics. Votes: 0

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny. Votes: 0

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well. Votes: 0

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't. Votes: 0

My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony. Votes: 0

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious. Votes: 0

To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude. Votes: 0

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. Votes: 0

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people. Votes: 0

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process. Votes: 0

I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization. Votes: 0

David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving. Votes: 0

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. Votes: 0

I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women. Votes: 0

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Votes: 0

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. Votes: 0

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society. Votes: 0

The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies. Votes: 0

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things. Votes: 0

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest. Votes: 0

The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world. Votes: 0

I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people. Votes: 0

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.. Votes: 0

Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced. Votes: 0

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it. Votes: 0

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. Votes: 0

There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system... Votes: 0

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil. Votes: 0

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people. Votes: 0

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering. Votes: 0

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. Votes: 0

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing. Votes: 0

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. Votes: 0

All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it. Votes: 0

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician. Votes: 0

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person. Votes: 0

It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism ... Votes: 0

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad. Votes: 0

The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least. Votes: 0

I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from. Votes: 0

I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations. Votes: 0