I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can… — Bobbi Gibb Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see,… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy… — Frances Beinecke Copy Share Image
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
Leadership isn’t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It’s a process ordinary people use when they’re bringing forth… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
“There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this,… — Vladimir Semichastny Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations… I… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying… — K. Patricia Cross Copy Share Image
We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Ordinary people, caught in the trap of their routine lives, are not villains any more than eccentrics or rebels are villains. Essentially,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The whole idea of 'Secret Life of Muslims' is that we're just ordinary people. We're your neighbors; we're your coworkers. We like… — Mustafa Ali Copy Share Image
The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
In Burma, economic engagement enriches the regime, as the economy is controlled by the regime. Economic engagement benefits this elite, not ordinary… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at… — Melita Norwood Copy Share Image
In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled. My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?" "You know. Someone you forget." From the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Some banks won’t make it. Other banks are going to make sure that we strengthen. All deposits are going to be safe… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
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