“I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.” PeopleWantViewsPayOrdinaryPhonesBritainOrdinary PeopleLunaticGood Money Author:John Gimlette
“Some banks won’t make it. Other banks are going to make sure that we strengthen. All deposits are going to be safe for ordinary people, but we’re going to have to bring out some of these bad assets.” PeopleSafeOrdinaryAssetsBad AssOrdinary PeopleDeposits Author:Barack Obama
“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
“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.” PeopleKnowsDoeMadeGivenSimplePowerfulAttitudeLordKnow HowRichHavensKingsCitizensOrdinaryGoldBitterTaoismFoxesCoatsGreedyDeliciousJewelsBeggarFurDelicacyResentfulOrdinary CitizensGreedy People Author:Zicheng Hong
“I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.” PeopleThinkingProblemMightLawAnswersViolenceOrdinaryConscienceSolveVideoContemporaryCartoonOrdinary PeopleRight Answers Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I still maintain that you cannot treat [Donald] Trump, analyze Trump, destroy Trump the way politics says you destroy people that are running for office. I don't think the standard, ordinary operating procedures work.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsRunningTrumpOfficeStandardsOrdinaryTreatsProceduresRunning For Office Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.” PeopleWorldWantHellOrdinaryWestHumanismDisappearRussiaElitesOrdinary PeopleGo To Hell Author:Andre Vltchek
“I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.” PeoplePoliticalGivenProcessOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleRecogniseJoiningMandatesJoining In Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can direct us towards the original. I was recently at the Louvre Museum and I was filming people who were viewing the Mona Lisa. I noticed the number of ordinary people, astonished, mouths agape, standing still for long stretches looking at the work, and I wondered, "Where does this come from? Are these people all art connoisseurs?" They are like me; through the years, we've seen this work in our schoolbooks or art history books, but when we stand before the original, we hold our breath.” PeopleTryingYearsLongDoeArtStillsBookValuesNumbersOrdinaryMouthsStandingDirectBreathsOriginalsLike MeCopiesMuseumsOrdinary PeopleThrough The YearsArt HistoryHistory BooksStanding StillMona LisaConnoisseurAgapeLouvre Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.” PeopleIfsLife IsClassOrdinaryHarderRealisingWorking ClassFamily Life Author:Theresa May
“I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsStatesCultureStrongLosesConsciousnessForeverDrugOrdinaryCapacityNegativeHorribleDestructiveOur SocietyAddictInnateStates Of Consciousness Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“Not that I've always agreed with what she said - far from it - but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been properly lauded, in my view, as a judge who approached her duties with open-mindedness and with a sensitivity that affects her decisions would have on everyday, ordinary people.” PeopleHas BeensSaidJusticeDecisionViewsJudgingDutyOrdinaryEverydaySensitivityOrdinary PeopleOpen MindednessSandra Day O Connor Author:Joe Biden
“One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and heads of state on the one hand, and his ability to engage with ordinary people, equally comfortably.” PeopleStatesHandsEyeMy OwnAbilityKingsOrdinaryQueensOrdinary PeopleNelsonHead Of StateKings And Queens Author:Kumi Naidoo
“The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.” PeopleGivingLooksChildrenMadeAblePoliticalProcessRightsImpossibleSacrificeAchieveMovementWillingGiving UpOrdinaryOur ChildrenCivil RightsBotherYour ChildrenOur FutureOrdinary PeopleYour FutureCivil Rights Movement Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.” PeopleTryingSometimesGovernmentWantedMy OwnPerfectEconomyPolicyModelsOrdinaryReflectionComplexesConservativeStuckNarrativeOfficialsCategoriesForeign PolicyCanvasStereotypeFree MarketOrdinary PeopleContradictoryInadequateAmbiguousMarketersElected Officials Author:Barack Obama
“I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that shimmering quality of people's everyday struggles.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStoriesRememberReadingCommunityPowerfulQualityStruggleFindingsOrdinaryEverydayDrawingStuckOrdinary PeopleTerrificVery PowerfulSacrednessStudsCommunity Organizing Author:Barack Obama
“Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.” PeopleImportantPlayHomeActionFightingEnergyLeaderRolesOrdinaryClimateClimate ChangeLocalsEfficientOrdinary PeopleClimate ActionLocal Food Author:Frances Beinecke
“There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments." We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.” PeopleTryingHas BeensMomentsDyingMissingRegretOrdinaryArticlesOrdinary Moments Author:Geneen Roth
“What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.” PeopleJobsOpportunityProcessGrowthCan DoChallengesShapesCreatingOrdinaryEnvironmentalWorkersProtectionIntegrationOrdinary PeopleRapidsStrengtheningBetter JobsRapid GrowthEnvironmental Challenges Author:Barack Obama
“I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and that does help out, but, in general, there are so many other people who are skilled in their field that I feel very ordinary.” PeopleFeelsPersonsDoeHelpingWishAbilityFieldsSucceedOrdinaryModest Author:Edmund Hillary
“The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.” PeopleShouldCountryHardStatesRealityIndividualEasyInterestLibertyPrinciplesDemocracyRightsOrdinaryPressesPrioritiesFree MarketOrdinary PeopleCivil LibertiesBasic PrinciplesFree Press Author:Vladimir Putin
“Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” PeopleWorldWarStoriesHappensNaturalSituationDiseaseOrdinaryExtraordinaryDisasterAriseBad ThingsOrdinary PeopleExtraordinary ThingsNatural DisasterOrdinary Things Author:Daryn Kagan
“I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over the world feel uncomfortable about that; they want to be in control. They want to be the ones telling people: "This is what we have done in history" but when people begin to say, "No this is what we have done in history" it's a different thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantFeelsDifferentDoneGovernmentOrdinaryUncomfortableDifferent ThingsRegimesOrdinary PeopleAwakened Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o
“We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.” PeopleGivingFactsOpportunityEnergyEconomyOrdinaryEntrepreneurCleanWorkersMatureMore MoneyEfficiencyConservationOrdinary PeopleClean EnergyEnergy Efficiency Author:Van Jones
“Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.” PeopleI CanPlayCharacterCan DoOrdinaryUniversalReminding Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So I talk about how people can stop separating dharma practice - going on retreats, going to dharma centers, hearing talks, reading books - from their ordinary life.” PeopleShouldBookReadingPracticeOrdinaryHearingReading BooksRetreatCavesDharmaOrdinary LifeSeparating Author:Tenzin Palmo
“In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting on a big throne, but behind the scenes. How do they treat ordinary people - not the big sponsors - but just ordinary people who are of no particular importance to them.” PeopleShouldPersonsBigsBehindsParticularSceneBehaviorOrdinarySittingTreatsImportanceChecksHolinessThronesOrdinary PeopleBehind The ScenesSponsorsLamaDalai Author:Tenzin Palmo
“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."” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantCountryStatesFactsShowsGovernmentCareRunningInterestingUnitedViewsUnited StatesAudienceMediaHugeMassOrdinaryWingsPopulationDon't CareAppealsCorporationsUniformsOrdinary PeopleVery InterestingRight WingTalk ShowsAnalog Author:Noam Chomsky
“Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.” PeopleMenWayFeelsWellsKindLittlesLongStillsEndsPlayCharacterSeemsHappensFunBlackWhitePoorAcceptingStruggleRichWrittenModernLong TimeOrdinaryProductionsRingsContemporaryAll KindsBest ThingsBellsLong Time AgoSimilarityRecessionsGreat DepressionGrandpaBlack Or WhiteRich Or PoorAccentuateLoving FamilyGreat Recession Author:Chris Hart
“I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.” PeopleThinkingCircumstancesLimitsOrdinaryExtraordinaryOrdinary 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.” PeopleTalkingBuildingOrdinaryShopsOwnersVillageOrdinary PeopleHousing Author:Gary Hustwit
“The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.” PeopleProblemJobsGuyInterestingParticularOrdinaryExtraordinaryOperaAccentsVery InterestingDetectivesLispInteresting Times Author:Rowan Atkinson
“I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.” PeopleWayHandsTalkingOpinionStudyMagicOrdinaryStrategy Author:Alex Jones
“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.” PeopleNeedsPoliticalValuesPartyOrdinaryTraditionalPolitical PartiesOrdinary People Author:Edward Snowden
“There are ordinary spaces where people do, more or less, share neighbourhoods. In Haifa, there are whole communities that are more or less integrated. But of course that is with Palestinian Israelis who have, for the most part, accepted certain kinds of cooperative models, and also accept second-class citizenship.” PeopleKindWholeCertainCoursesCommunitySpaceAcceptingClassShareModelsOrdinaryAcceptedPalestinianCitizenshipIntegratedCooperativesNeighbourhoods Author:Judith Butler
“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.” PeopleWayWritingKindWarSometimesCharacterRememberUsedGuyCultureBlackVoiceCommonExpressionHeroOrdinaryPoliceEverydayFolksNewspapersComicRemember WhenPolice BrutalityBrutalityColumnsKoreanIdentificationPopular CultureKorean WarCommon Folk Author:Danny Glover
“I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're working all the hours. They're doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsSometimesInterestHoursStageOrdinaryOddsWho You KnowCenter Stage Author:Theresa May
“People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.” PeopleThinkingNeedsChildrenRunningKidsJobsSpeakHurtPayStudentsOrdinaryPercentRootsPreparedDemocratWorkersDebtCampaignsHungryWorriedGrassDecentAgendas Author:Bernie Sanders
“Common, ordinary, everyday Democrats, not leftists, there may be - if the agenda gets implemented and this country starts humming on the domestic side and if jobs come back and if the economy gets up to 3% growth and is sustained and the job market expands accordingly and people's wages go up, it won't matter.” PeopleIfsMayCountryMatterJobsSidesGrowthCommonEconomyOrdinaryDemocratEverydayGet UpAgendasWagesLeftistsHumming Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.” PeopleMenShouldFoundRealizingLeaderStreetsDangerHe ManVictoryOrdinarySouthBackgroundsCelebrateAllowingRejoiceSouth AfricaColleaguesCiviliansGood Leader Author:Nelson Mandela
“Here's Hillary Clinton getting away with tying the Republicans to rich people. She's tying the Republican Party to Wall Street, to the big banks. She's tying the Republican Party to the financial crisis in 2008. It's all their fault. She's tying herself as with the low-income crowd - and the average, ordinary middle class American - as their champion, as their defender. They don't know that it's not the Republicans in bed with banks. They don't know that it's the banks that are practically paying for and underwriting the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton today.” PeopleKnowsBigsTodayPartyClassRichStreetsMiddleWallRepublicanBedLowsOrdinaryCrisisFaultsClintonDemocratFinancialAverageCrowdsIncomeChampionMiddle ClassGet AwayRepublican PartyRich PeopleDefendersFinancial CrisisLow Income Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are people who disagree with the left, and that will not be tolerated. People who disagree with them, whether they are high judges, whether they are prosecutors, whether they are average ordinary every day citizens, it will not be tolerated.” PeopleLeftJudgingCitizensOrdinaryAverageDisagreeProsecutor Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsMayHardHelpingBigsWould BeFallHouseNationsBreakHard WorkEqualOrdinaryMachinesBottomRussiaBlockCommunistSwingsBackwardsEasternLaddersTippingBulgaria Author:Robin Leach
“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.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongRememberLong TimeOrdinaryFrustratedExhaustedOrdinary PeopleProgressionRemember YouRemembers You Author:Cleve Jones
“We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.” PeopleNeedsChristianNaturalConversationOrdinaryChristian Faith Author:Mark Dever
“We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsLittlesCountryMomentsHappensOpportunityVoiceResponsibilityGroupsQuietOrdinaryDeserveExtraordinaryEverydayOfficialsExtrasMarchPathwaysRemindingExtraordinary ThingsIfs AndElected OfficialsDeserve BetterQuiet VoiceOrdinary And Extraordinary Author:Nina Turner
“The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.” PeopleLyingFallWonderSuccessfulPlayerSeaLessonsOrdinaryCapacityErasEngagedDisappointedGeekMalcontent Author:Warren G. Bennis
“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.” PeopleIfsShouldLongSpeakLanguageViewsCommonOrdinaryAssumingSensibleOrdinary PeopleElitist 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.” PeopleThinkingDoeDoneFactsUseAmericaUsedRoomsHugePeriodsOrdinarySouthBackgroundsMealsPopeOrdinary PeopleTransportMansionsDiningSouth AmericaDining RoomsLimousines 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.” PeopleIfsHelpingBigsMightBitsGrowthEconomicEffectsHavensOrdinaryThirdsIncreaseImpactRaisedRoundsSignificantEmploymentInequalityWealthyAssetsWagesOrdinary PeopleEconomic GrowthLendingPositive ImpactHaving StrengthBig Impact Author:Gerald Epstein