Ordinary People Quotes (page 3)

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• fashion
• men
• world

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose. Victor Hugo

• drinking
• different
• life

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

• change
• extraordinary people
• extraordinary things

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

• book
• little
• may

The book will be a demonstration that children, without being coerced or manipulated, or being put in exotic, specially prepared environments, or having their thinking planned and ordered for them, can, will and do pick up from the world around them important information about what we call the Basics. It will also demonstrate that "ordinary" people, without special schooling themselves, can give their children whatever slight assistance may be needed to help them in their exploration of the... John Holt

• eyes
• cowardly
• fact

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. C. S. Lewis

• devil
• look
• looked

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. Jeanette Winterson

• ordinary
• extraordinary people
• ordinary extraordinary

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick

• lively
• our lives
• lives

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. C. S. Lewis

• talkative
• merely
• talks

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. C. S. Lewis

• courage
• stands
• exploitative

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up. Cornel West

• friends
• friend
• laughs

You get a haircut. Ordinary people laugh. Do friends? No they don't Jonathan Franzen

• family
• god
• work

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. Neal A. Maxwell

• i hate people
• hating
• hateful

I hate ordinary people! Louisa May Alcott

• hero
• evening
• act

Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. Jodi Picoult

• pain
• simple
• genius

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering. Vernor Vinge