Ordinary People Quotes - Page 14

• Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, People, Ordinary

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• I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

  Leonard Baskin

  Communication, Hard Work, Thinking

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• There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

  Edward Zwick

  Men, Numbers, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

  David Platt

  People, Ordinary, Underestimate

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• We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Ordinary, Realizing

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• This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

  Nigel Farage

  Jobs, People, Growth

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• In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Past, Fiction Novels, Space

  " Tourist finds 'paradise' in space", www.cnn.com. May 6, 2001.

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• I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Memories, Collective Memory

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• There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Courage, Sacrifice, Names

  Aung San Suu Kyi (2010). “Letters From Burma”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Japan, People, Justice

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Artist, People

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.

  Margaret Drabble

  People, Expectations, Needs

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

  Anita Shreve

  Love Is, People, Ordinary

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Art, Laughter

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• 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?

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Thinking, Everyday Things

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• 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.

  John Allen Fraser

  Kings, Mean, Responsibility

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

  Katherine Paterson

  Crazy, People, Ordinary

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Race, People

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator”, p.560

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• The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Rivers, People

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Sexing The Cherry”, p.123, Random House

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• I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people.

  Ross Kemp

  People, World, Enjoy

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• Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

  Roger von Oech

  People, Working Together, Ordinary

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• We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Ordinary, Knows

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• When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

  Cornel West

  People, Ordinary, Wake Up

  Twitter post from May 27, 2010

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• Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

  Billy Idol

  Art, Rocks, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Library, Ordinary

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2017

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