Best ordinary & ordinary-people Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they reach a huge audience. And they're very uniform. So right wing, I don't think you can even find an analog in your, but they reach a mass audience, and their view is that the corporations are liberal. Their appeal to the population is, "the country is run by liberals, they own the corporations, they run the government, they own the media, and they don't care about us ordinary people."”

“I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.”

People Thinking Circumstances Limits Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People

Author:Jodi Picoult

“We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.”

People Talking Building Ordinary Shops Owners Village Ordinary People Housing

Author:Gary Hustwit

“We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.”

People Needs Political Values Party Ordinary Traditional Political Parties Ordinary People

Author:Edward Snowden

“During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.”

People Thinking World Long Remember Long Time Ordinary Frustrated Exhausted Ordinary People Progression Remember You Remembers You

Author:Cleve Jones

“We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This resonates with ordinary people, as long as we speak ordinary language and don't come across as elitists.”

People Ifs Should Long Speak Language Views Common Ordinary Assuming Sensible Ordinary People Elitist

Author:Michael Yates

“The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.”

People Thinking Doe Done Facts Use America Used Rooms Huge Periods Ordinary South Backgrounds Meals Pope Ordinary People Transport Mansions Dining South America Dining Rooms Limousines

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while having relatively small if any positive impacts on bank lending, employment, wages or economic growth, so ordinary people haven't had much help. By the third round of QE in 2012-2014, the effects had likely muted quite a bit. There were probably not big impacts on asset prices from QE and the positive effects on employment growth might have strengthened somewhat.”

“Ordinary people like you and me can achieve very little on their own. We need to build support. Even if you are a thought leader and have some good ideas on how to make the world better, and even if you write five or ten books - that won't have much effect unless you have people who are willing to support your ideas.”

People Ifs World Needs Writing Littles Book Ideas Leader Support Five Achieve Effects Willing Like You Ten Ordinary Good Ideas Ordinary People

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, "I can't believe this happened to me." And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, "I must be on the wrong path." But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path?”

“I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a theme in my public career it's that if ordinary people get involved then good things happen. So I want to see the Democratic Party move in that direction. And what that means is that we aren't just micro-targeting to eke out presidential victories; it means that we're showing up in places where right now we're not winning a lot.”

“In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Fiction Democracy Issues Century Adventure Ordinary Cooks 21st Century Ordinary People Spectacular Unreal

Author:John Updike

“In Burma, economic engagement enriches the regime, as the economy is controlled by the regime. Economic engagement benefits this elite, not ordinary people. The money is spent on the military, stolen by the elite.”

People Economy Economic Military Benefits Ordinary Controlled Engagement Regimes Elites Stolen Ordinary People Burma

Author:Zoya Phan

“And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.”

People Thinking Speak Language Views Poet Higher Ordinary Planes Daily Life Ordinary People

Author:Stephen King

“What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.”

People Book Whole Past Literature Realizing Serious Ordinary Ordinary People

Author:Doris Lessing

“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”

People Ifs Thinking Speak Too Much Ordinary Complaining Ordinary People

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.”

People Thinking Want Needs Ideas Ordinary Unions Boxes Good Ideas Suggestions Ordinary People Suggestion Boxes

Author:Frances O'Grady

“You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.”

People Want Real Stories Novel Type Ordinary Ordinary People Immediacy

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”

People Art Literature Ordinary Extraordinary Discovering Ordinary People Discovering Something

Author:Boris Pasternak

“The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.”

People America Political Challenges Party Media Behavior Ordinary Contribution Exploitation Political Parties Ordinary People Involvement Resisting American Society

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The Constitution was made for ordinary people.”

People Made Ordinary Constitution Ordinary People

Author:Pat Robertson

“I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.”

People Force Ordinary Ordinary People Pursued Preoccupation

Author:Steven Spielberg

“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”

People Ifs Thinking Inspirational Success Can Do Learning Ordinary Commitment Determination Notion Openness Ordinary People Amazement Preconceived Notions Preconceived Ideas

Author:Ben Stein

“Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.”

People Law Choices Given Chance Secret Democracy Ordinary Police Tyranny Dictatorship Dictator Ordinary People Rule Of Law Secret Police

Author:Tony Blair

“By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.”

People Political Language Streets Wall Creating Ordinary Crisis Majority Complexes Crowds Ordinary People Urgent Participants Fluent

Author:Matt Taibbi

“What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.”

People Looks Sometimes Stories Form Order Models Ordinary Theatre Operations Internals Ordinary People

Author:Pete Townshend

“We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.”

People Stories Ordinary Impact Presses Various Traditional Journalism Ignored Ordinary People Blogs Grassroots Being Ignored

Author:Jimmy Wales

“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.”

People Hero Ordinary Extraordinary Heroism Ordinary People Extraordinary Life Mcr Extraordinary Person Ordinary And Extraordinary Ordinary Extraordinary

Author:Gerard Way

“The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.”

People Party Liberty Ordinary Libertarian Barack Tea Ordinary People Tea Party Suppression Fervent Grassroots

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?”

People Has Beens Sometimes Seems Evil Hero Smart Ordinary Aliens Dumb Good People Unusual Heroic Irrational Ordinary People Social Psychology Smart People Unusual Things

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.”

People Men World Said Ordinary Let Me Accounts Faults Judged Ordinary People Fashionable Haste

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.”

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”

“until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.”

People Way Ordinary Communicate Theologian Ordinary People Clergy Vernacular

Author:C. S. Lewis

“A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.”

People Doe Real Dream Dies Choices Ordinary Ordinary People Real Things

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”

Source: Christian Reflections

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”

People Our Lives Ordinary Ordinary People People In Our Lives

Author:C. S. Lewis

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

People Political Politics Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Extraordinary Things

Author:Barack Obama

“God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.”

People Done Home Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Obscurity Seeming Home And Family

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

People Life Trying Situation Behavior Ordinary Assuming Smallest Ordinary People Disagreeable Expenditures

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.”

People Might Gone Ordinary Heroism September Ordinary People September 11 September 11 2001

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)”

“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”

People Art Sometimes Passion Literature Secret Mystery Effects Ordinary Intellect Veils Ordinary People Mystery Of Life

Book:The Essential Oscar Wilde

Source: The Essential Oscar Wilde

“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

People Ifs Hands Community Simple Building Listening Hero Ordinary Leap Tall Boots Heroism Rescue Bullets Ordinary People Superpower Bruised Capes Tall Buildings

Book:Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.”

People World Done Work Genius Balance Majors Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Emotional Balance

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“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.”

“The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.”

People Dark Ordinary Ordinary People

Author:Pam Brown

“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.”

People Giving Matter Found Millions Imagine Effects Events Shapes Ordinary Caught Melody Caught Up Ordinary People Great 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

“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”

“We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.”

People Want Giving Real Fall Hours Walks Interesting Half Struggle Feet Streets Drama Ordinary Window Extraordinary Real Life Ordinary People

Author:Ricky Gervais

Ordinary Quotes

Related topics

Ordinary Quotes