“Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.” PeopleChildrenBigsAnswersPoorMillionsOrdinaryExtraordinaryCongressCampaignsOfficialsElderlyBillionaireContributorsElected Officials Author:Bernie Sanders
“The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.” MenMillionsAirOrdinaryFellowsExtraordinaryFighterAviationCombatOne In A Million Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!” LooksSoulMillionsCreaturesOrdinaryDelightPoeticCrocodiles Author:Anton Chekhov
“It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern. But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.” IfsTryingDoePlayHappensCareMillionsClearRightsSeeingEffectsSeriousCitizensPoliticianOrdinaryConcernCongressThings HappenOfficialsRelevantInvestigationDocumentsScandalSpyCiaNsaElected OfficialsOrdinary Citizens Author:Edward Snowden
“I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.” PeopleWaySelfFeelingsFoundWishMillionsCostOrdinaryAddEnvironmentalRelativeRighteousOrdinary PeopleHandfulSelf RighteousStaggering Author:Thomas Sowell
“The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?” IfsDoneFormMillionsCitizensTaxesCreatingOrdinaryRedIncomeComplexityTapePenaltiesBureaucracyIncome TaxAccountantsRed TapePerjuryOrdinary Citizens Author:Thomas Sowell
“A real Master is not a teacher: a real Master is an awakener. His function is totally different from a teacher; his function is far more difficult. And only very few people can stay with a Master because to wake up after millions of lives is not an ordinary feat; it is a miracle. And to allow somebody to wake you up needs great trust, great surrender.” PeopleNeedsDifferentRealLife IsDifficultMillionsTeacherMastersOrdinaryFunctionMiracleWake UpSurrenderFeatsWakes You Author:Rajneesh
“The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.” ChildrenMadeEyeBeautifulMillionsNormalOrdinaryAdultsAverageStaringIndispensable Author:Peter Shaffer
“There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.” NeedsYearsWarStoriesTodayMillionsLaughingFrontsStudentsThousandResearchOrdinaryMy FriendsYears AgoHistoricalAvailableInterviewsIranOne TimeThousand YearsLive For TodayOrdinary LifeHistorical Research Author:Mohammad Marandi
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.” LittlesEndsBigsMillionsOrdinaryAddExtraordinaryLittle ThingsBig Things Book:The Compound Effect Source: The Compound Effect
“The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.” PeopleIfsShouldReasonHappensAblePurposeSidesHurtCitiesMorningMillionsEffectsStrangeTerribleTenHappeningsOrdinaryEternityDelightThings HappenBurningBreathingLive LifeRememberedIt HurtsOrdinary PeopleWizardsTerrible ThingsStrange ThingsSide Effects Author:Diane Duane
“For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.” PeopleGivingMatterFoundMillionsImagineEffectsEventsShapesOrdinaryCaughtMelodyCaught UpOrdinary PeopleGreat Events Book:Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
“Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely.The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers. Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim apostle.” MenHumansLeftMemoriesPerfectRaceChristianityMillionsSeriousBehaviorOrdinaryConsciousHuman RaceThis DayFollowersSolitaryFoundersSectionsApostlesMuhammadOrdinary LifeCanonPerfect ManEminence Author:David George Hogarth