Ordinary People Quotes - Page 15

• There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Ordinary, Extraordinary Things

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

  Anna Funder

  Past, People, Ordinary

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• We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Thinking, Idols, People

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.90, Random House

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• I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

  Zig Ziglar

  Determination, Believe, People

  Ziglar, Zig (1985). “Steps to the Top”, p.18, Pelican Publishing

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• Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

  Aldous Huxley

  Drinking, Animal, Thinking

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• Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Hero, People, Ordinary

  Bruce Wilkinson (2013). “The Prayer of Jabez for Teens”, p.67, Multnomah

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• Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Ordinary, World

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.116, Random House

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• 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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Impact, People, Being Ignored

  The Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

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• He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, People, Church

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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• God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all our diversity, we can come together as a community of believers to restore the image of God in the world.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Christian, Taken

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Feb 19, 2013

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• Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.88, Publishdrive

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• Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

  Anne Frank

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.63, GENERAL PRESS

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• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

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

  Barack Obama

  People, Political, Ordinary

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• They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Princess, Love You

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Wisdom, Blessed

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• People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Average, People

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• Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mistake, Wings, People

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories”, p.21, The Floating Press

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• Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  People, Marketing, Ordinary

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• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Garry Kasparov

  Impact, Russia, Ukraine

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• If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

  Scilla Elworthy

  War, Army, Government

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• One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Order, Two

  "Les misérables".

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• Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage.

  Enoch L. Johnson

  Motivational, People, Ordinary

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• Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opposites, People, Liberty

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• If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

  Amit Goswami

  War, Views, People

  Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.8, Penguin

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