Ordinary people Quotes · Page 16

He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact…

— Desmond Tutu

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

— Thomas Sowell

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love…

— Joanna Macy

Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have…

— Marc Faber

I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary…

— Timothy Leary

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

Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage.

— Enoch L. Johnson

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people,…

— Simon Critchley

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

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims…

— Lyn Gardner

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

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

— Agnes Varda

“Simple things are found in ordinariness - but extraordinary things live inside things that are loved.”

— Laura Chouette

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

— Anonymous

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

— Stanley Milgram

Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.

— Yohji Yamamoto

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore…

— Paul Hawken

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people,…

— Helen Clark

There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the…

— Rick Warren

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

— Robert G. Allen

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where…

— Willie Pastrano

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

— Brad Brown

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our…

— Anonymous

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until…

— Julianne Moore