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Ordinary Men Quotes

George Henry Lewes quote: "Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow..."
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. George Henry Lewes
I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary! Peter Shaffer
Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. It wishes for light upon that awful matter, it asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the thing that I felt in that jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects... Gilbert K. Chesterton
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession Thomas Hardy
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Roland Allen
Thucydides quote: "It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in..."
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. Thucydides
William Halsey quote: "There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary..."
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. William Halsey
Walter Savage Landor quote: "Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us;..."
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. Walter Savage Landor
Children play at being great and wonderful people, at the ambitions they will put away for one reason or another before they grow into ordinary men and women. Mankind as a whole had a like dream once; everybody and nobody built up the dream bit by bit, and the ancient story-tellers are there to make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels. The Fianna and their like are themselves so full of power, and they... William Butler Yeats
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us. Virginia Woolf
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. Sigmund Freud
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written? heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world. Angela Carter
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it. Cornel West
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. C. Wright Mills
Denis Diderot quote: "Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes..."
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. Denis Diderot

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