The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to… — Ron Loewinsohn Copy Share Image
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests… — Sue Gardner Copy Share Image
I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people.… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have… — Zeljko Ivanek Copy Share Image
Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
![“I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8d7/barack-obama-17_community_i-remember-reading-studs-terkel-s-workin_3056170.jpg)
