Ordinary people Quotes · Page 9

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…

— Leonard Baskin

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning…

— Deepak Chopra

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real,…

— Rachael Taylor

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

— Bruce Feiler

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

— Wilma Mankiller

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

— Kevin Eikenberry

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help…

— Wendell Berry

Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study…

— Zhuangzi

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not…

— Thomas Sowell

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic…

— J. M. Coetzee

The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this…

— Richard Norton Smith

We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This…

— Michael Yates

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in…

— Phyllis McGinley

David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington…

— Jonathan Yardley

“There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. Some were young people with…

— Terry Pratchett

We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours…

— Vandana Shiva

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates…

— Gertrude Atherton

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the…

— Paul Hawken

We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer,…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Rupert Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship in order to buy television stations in the United States, which is symptomatic of the…

— John Pilger

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope…

— James Nachtwey

I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to…

— Cherie Carter-Scott

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

— Henry Williamson

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

— Boris Pasternak

“All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.”

— Polly Horvath

“Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”

— Kat Kruger

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take…

— Vladimir Lenin

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother…

— Garry Kasparov

“in order for money to make money, it needed to be big money. But, of course, ordinary people didn’t have big money.”

— Arne Dahl

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

— Christopher Lasch

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to…

— William Halsey

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

— Robert Redford

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

— Frank McCourt

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can…

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Neil Gershenfeld

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently and consistently do simple things... will bring forth extraordinary results.

— Anonymous

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be,…

— Peter Weir