Ordinary people Quotes · Page 13

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that…

— Frances O'Grady

The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see…

— Paulo Coelho

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating,…

— Jean Anouilh

Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while…

— Gerald Epstein

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this…

— Lawrence Durrell

What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they…

— Studs Terkel

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary…

— Daryn Kagan

Ordinary people like you and me can achieve very little on their own. We need to build support. Even if you are…

— Thomas Pogge

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

— Studs Terkel

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

— Gerard Way

With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from…

— William J. Clinton

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

— Christopher Lasch

China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party…

— Liu Xiaobo

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind.…

— Mark Millar

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

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

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were…

— Oscar Wilde

“Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with…

— Bernie Sanders

“People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.”

— Judith Guest

The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the…

— Ian Mckellen

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

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

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