“Those who are looking for some extraordinary people must know that all the extraordinariness is hidden in the ordinary people!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.” — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Great people talk about ideas; ordinary people talk about things; small minded people talk about other people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of… — Tim Jackson 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
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
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world,… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a… — Barack Obama 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
“Well, now,' the latter replied pensively, 'they're people like any other people...they love money, but that has always been so...Mankind loves money,… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now),… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“I love Nigerians becouse they're extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.” — Hamzatribah Copy Share Image
The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“You have to go beyond ordinary people in order to understand and apply the concept of common sense.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“when ordinary people are exposed to intensive political education and conversation on specific policy issues, they often change their mind” — Christopher H. Achen Copy Share Image
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey… — Andrew van der Bijl Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given — Brad Brown Copy Share Image
I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Often, the only thing that separates ordinary people from extraordinary accomplishments is the realization that there is simply no other choice.” — Shimon Apisdorf Copy Share Image
Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things — Dee Hock Copy Share Image