Ordinary people Quotes · Page 5

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

— Judith Guest

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

— Pam Brown

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

— Robert G. Allen

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

— Sanjaya Baru

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

— Bruce Wilkinson

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

— Anonymous

“Extraordinary people read. Ordinary people comprehend.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them…

— Ian Kiernan

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

— Dee Hock

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Brad Brown

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

— Jodi Picoult

“Often, the only thing that separates ordinary people from extraordinary accomplishments is the realization that there is simply no other choice.”

— Shimon Apisdorf

Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in…

— Ben Domenech

“You have to go beyond ordinary people in order to understand and apply the concept of common sense.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The final result wouldn’t be decided by the presidents or within the mighty kingdoms or the great capitals of the world. It…

— Chris Stewart

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way…

— Agnes Varda

I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just…

— Thomas Sowell

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher…

— Marshall McLuhan

We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens…

— Regina Brett

The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"…

— George Orwell

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me…

— Russell Banks

I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or…

— Tariq Ramadan

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that…

— Bill Moyers

Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s…

— Richard Ramirez

If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they…

— Noam Chomsky

“There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appearance, fairly well educated, not…

— Dostoyevsky

I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to…

— Neal Stephenson

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary…

— Victor Hugo

The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political…

— Dean Baker

“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much…

— Dostoyevsky

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny. —C. S. LEWIS”

— R.T. Kendall

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

— Theodore Levitt

“In every time, in every culture, ordinary people have done extraordinary things.”

— M.R. Neer

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

— Steven Spielberg

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

— Anonymous

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

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— CL