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“May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.”

People Way May Light Eye Values Culture Dark Common Fire Honor Ordinary Sight Heal Endeavor Makers Ritual Weary Chill

Book:A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

Source: A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

“The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.”

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.”

“The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.”

People Way Judging Genius Ordinary Spending Inclination

Book:The accidence: or, First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies

Source: The accidence: or, First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies

“My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.”

People Humans Book Able Challenges Situation Draws Ordinary Extraordinary Compelling Reserves Status Quo Ordinary People Human Relations Human Relationships Navigate

Author:Vikas Swarup

“I went to boarding school and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.”

People Knows School Certain Easy Know How Groups Ordinary Ordinary Life Oxford

Author:Mark Haddon

“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.”

People Way Self Feelings Found Wish Millions Cost Ordinary Add Environmental Relative Righteous Ordinary People Handful Self Righteous Staggering

Author:Thomas Sowell

“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”

People Ifs Soul Enough Values Mistake Moral Serious Higher Perception Ordinary Dignity Technique Idiot Sensitive Bitterness Scream Ordinary People

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.”

“I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"”

People Mean Littles Care Past Used House Ordinary Let Me Jersey Salesman New Jersey Princeton

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Humans Kind Helping Pain Spiritual Difficult Loss Existence Roles Darkness Sadness Approach Ordinary Ease Serving Secular Human Existence

Author:Kevin Hart

“Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Different Culture Objects Reader Calling Ordinary Distance Representing Exotic Emulate

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.”

People Action Father Risk Ordinary Uncertainty Founding Justified Ordinary People Moses

Author:Bruce Feiler

“Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?”

People Knows Needs Mind Humans Made Real Whole Lasts Know How Our Lives Conditions Masters Bears Ordinary Surprise Fruit Boredom Feds Human Mind Stimulus Interruptions Incoherence Sudden Change

Author:Paul Valery

“Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.”

People Literature Social Wealth Findings Ordinary Capitalism Hollywood Strive Productions Pursuit Enjoyment Villain Dominance Prestige Egalitarianism Pursuit Of Wealth

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.”

People Past Found Interesting Common Magic Research Ordinary Most Interesting People From The Past

Author:David Liss

“I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.”

People Two Courses Left Interest Economic Needed Bird Ordinary Concern Wings Crash Ordinary People Eagles Bargains Right Wing Left Wing American Eagle

Author:Bill Moyers

“If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.”

People Ifs Want Space Creative Team Smart Ordinary Extraordinary Creative People Extraordinary Things

Author:Tom Kelley

“People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.”

People Turns Ordinary Responsible Crisis Wiser Ordinary People

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that means. It is also only a theory that the world goes round the Sun - it's just a theory for which there is an immense amount of evidence. There are many scientific theories that are in doubt. Even within evolution, there is some room for controversy. But that we are cousins of apes and jackals and starfish, let's say, that is a fact in the ordinary sense of the word.”

“The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands.”

People Thinking Knows Want Self Differences Levels Consciousness Ordinary Intention

Author:Wayne Dyer

“There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.”

People Writing Interesting Fiction Novel Scene Ordinary Memoir

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.”

People Thinking Way Giving Opportunity Fiction Ordinary Appetite Smarter Non Fiction Limited Time

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.”

“Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!”

“The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.”

People Country Food Ordinary British Savages Ordinary People Hamburgers Neatness

Book:The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

Source: The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

“In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans are the same everywhere and that the degree of variation between members of our species is very slight. This is of course an encouraging finding; it helps arm you against news programs back home that show seething or abject masses of either fanatical or torpid people. In another way it is a depressing finding; the sorts of things that make people quarrel and make them stupid are the same everywhere.”

“I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.”

People World Trying Art Philosophy Fronts Ordinary Everyday Exotic Travel The World Backdrop Linen

Author:Sally Mann

“Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place”

People Men World Girl Boys Special Ordinary Men And Women Ordinary People Boy And Girl Special Places

Author:Nelson Mandela

“The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.”

People Reality Faces Ability Ordinary Curse Lacking Ordinary People Rationalize

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.”

People Persons Ideas Used Accepting Knowing Subjects Effects Objects Ordinary Concepts Rejects Acquaintance Beneficial Propose Ordinary Person

Author:Anuj

“The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.”

People Persons Different Ordinary Insight Wit Senses Absurd Ordinary People

Author:Anuj

“Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”

People Wells Marriage Capable Ordinary Ordinary People Great Love Great Friend Great Friendship

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is not a violation of the laws of Nature, except for ignorant people. Magic is but a science, a profound knowledge of the Occult forces in Nature, and of the laws governing the visible or the invisible world. Spiritualism in the hands of an adept becomes Magic, for he is learned in the art of blending together the laws of the Universe, without breaking any of them and thereby violating Nature.”

“Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him; but they will on no account house with him.”

People Men Looks Character Certain House Force Wonder Ordinary Accounts Regard Admire Lions Flexibility Ordinary People

Author:Angela Merkel

“Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.”

People Important Eye Silence Darkness Ordinary Ears Profound Ordinary Life Profundity

Author:W. H. Auden

“All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.”

People Way Seems Happens Law Crime Ordinary Extraordinary Commit Obedience Divided Strict Ordinary People Ordinary And Extraordinary Ordinary Extraordinary

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.”

People Men Way Games Interest Ordinary Protest Terrified Ordinary People

Author:Robert Payne

“When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?”

People Thinking Looks Today Ordinary Angel Fairy Why Not Ordinary People Robes Halos

Book:In the Arms of Angels: True Stories of Heavenly Guardians

Source: In the Arms of Angels: True Stories of Heavenly Guardians

“If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.”

People Ifs Should Able Universe Principles Theory Ordinary Scientist Philosopher Discussion Broads Ordinary People Understanding The Universe

Book:A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

“What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.”

“Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.”

People Way Giving Inspiration Science Emotion Giving Up Ordinary Equipment Ordinary People Laboratory Subjectivity Edgy Vandals

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.”

People Want Speak Prayer Share Praying Ordinary Everyday Saint Mundane Praying To God Presence Of God

Author:Roberta Bondi

“Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.”

“I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people. We're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy.”

People Thinking Love Would Be Joy Courses Peace Challenges Struggle Ordinary And Love Average Satisfaction Ordinary People Hope And Faith Hope And Love

Author:Judah Smith

“I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.”

People Ifs Men Wells Stills Use Might Voice Singing Ordinary Dancing Driving Truck Dead Man

Author:Elvis Presley

“By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Might Sex Situation Seeing Acceptance Couple Gay Members Ordinary One Way Our Family Lgbt Gay People Think Twice

Author:George Takei

“When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I never was a Beatle, except musically. I don't think any of us was. What is a Beatle anyway? I'm not a Beatle or an ex-Beatle or even the George Harrison. I'm just a man. Very ordinary.”

People Thinking Men Would Be Ordinary Come Up Disappointed Expecting Exes

Author:George Harrison

“I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?”

People Kind Book Opportunity Challenges Draws Ordinary Monsters Enjoyed

Author:Jack Kirby

“A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.”

People Form Social Personality Ordinary Prison Disorder Promiscuous Erratic Anti Social Personality Disorders

Author:Antony Starr

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