Quotes of: Ordinary-men Keyword

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.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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

Don't do the things just for the sake of it. Do something extra. It makes ordinary things, extraordinary.

Chandan Sharma

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Lawrence of Arabia

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Patti Smith

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

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.

Leonard Baskin

Yes, it was a "beautiful" sermon, tugging the emotions and conjuring up pictures of greatness and peace. But were they talking about the decent peppery ordinary old man he knew, or had the subject strayed to the story of some saint of the past? Or we...

Winston Graham

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was ...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it--pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. "Artistic" fear, on the other han...

Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

The 'average sensual man' who is sometimes unfaithful to his wife, sometimes tipsy, always a little selfish, now and then (within the law) a trifle sharp in his deals, is certainly, by ordinary standards, a 'lower' type than the man whose soul is fil...

Reflections on the Psalms

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't th...

Jingo

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

The Confessions of a Misfit

We can't out-dream our Creator when it comes to our marriages

Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Russell Banks

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

Tell Me When I'm Dead