I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the… — Joseph Lelyveld Copy Share Image
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance... — Nichiren Copy Share Image
You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body… — Guo Xiang Copy Share Image
There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things… — Carlos Beltran Copy Share Image
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities. — Florence King Copy Share Image
I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of. — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
“Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.” — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Memories are so stupid.. That the ordinary people makes you laugh and the special people always make you cry. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image