“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansKindHelpingPainSpiritualDifficultLossExistenceRolesDarknessSadnessApproachOrdinaryEaseServingSecularHuman Existence Author:Kevin Hart
“The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.” MenTryingKindPlayGivenRolesTroubleExpressionMaterialsPerceptionOrdinaryDataPerceiveConsiderationMaterial ThingsOrdinary ManFoils Author:J. L. Austin
“Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.” PeopleMindGovernmentForceChurchRolesTheoryPoliticianOrdinaryImpressedOrdinary PeopleNot Impressed Author:Allan Boesak
“The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master” WorldWellsDoeLawRolesSubjectsMastersCitizensMajorsOrdinaryRegardWesternGuaranteesArbitraryRelianceTransformingRule Of LawWestern SocietyOrdinary Citizens Book:There's no such thing as a free lunch Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch
“What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.” TryingChildrenPersonsFeelingsRolesDestinySeeingOrdinaryOrdinary Person Author:James Hillman
“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
“I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an important evangelistic role. The apostles are clear that we mustn't limit the explicit sharing of the gospel to formal preaching. It can also happen in ordinary conversations.” ThinkingImportantPlayShowsHappensRolesClearConversationLimitsOrdinaryPreachingFormalTestamentNew TestamentApostlesGodlinessExplicit Author:Mark Dever
“The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.” PeopleHelpingActionSocialLeaderRolesMediaWillingCitizensOrdinarySocial MediaSpreadCriticalActivistExpandingConnectingCognitiveDissonanceCognitive DissonanceOrdinary Citizens Author:Simon Mainwaring
“I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.” FeelsRolesWalkingOrdinaryRedCoveredSweatCarpetRed Carpet Author:Kate Winslet