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
The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. — Pam Brown 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
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
