Best Ordinary Man Sayings

78 Ordinary Man quotes by 60 unique authors

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because… — Bertrand Russell
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything… — Carlos Castaneda
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes… — Emily Rodda
A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man… — Carlos Castaneda
I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet… — Carolyn Parkhurst
I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov… — Daniel Keyes
The ordinary man is the curse of civilization. — John Fowles
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't… — George Bernard Shaw
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale. — Cheryl Strayed
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want… — Idries Shah
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at… — Carlos Castaneda
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of… — George Orwell
I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being… — Brian Dennehy
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness… — Muhammad Ali
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary… — John le Carre
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only… — Graham Greene
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible… — Augustine Birrell
A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it… — Emilio Estevez
An ordinary man away from home giving advice. — Oscar Wilde
Till now I lived thinking that being a man was all about being strong. But that wasnt so. An ordinary man uses his strength for… — Unknown Author
One machine can do the work of hundred ordinary men but no machine can do the work of one extra ordinary man. — Unknown Author
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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