Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Austin O'Malley

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

Erich Fromm

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Loren Eiseley

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Henry Miller

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

Amit Kalantri

No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.

Amit Kalantri

If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Carlos Castaneda

T.E. Lawrence: The truth is: I'm an ordinary man. You might've told me that, Dryden.

Lawrence of Arabia

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

The Confessions of a Misfit

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Philip Caputo

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Mongolian

It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown peop...

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

Independent People

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Graham Greene

As he drove away, I began to think that what kept us together was perhaps not even our romance with an imaginary France. That was just a veneer, an illusion. Rather, it was our desperate inability to lead ordinary lives with ordinary people anywhere-...

Harvard Square

A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to...

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac