Ordinary People Quotes
Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person.
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.
The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.
Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.
The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.
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.
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.
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.
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.
I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.
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.
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.
By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.
Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide
I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.
Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.
I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.
