Quotes of: Ordinary-person Keyword

I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.

Graham Hancock

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Jack Nance

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

Donna Lynn Hope

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

George Henry Lewes

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Ursus Wehrli

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Eve Ensler

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of Laurie's confinement, that actually one good scare like that could probably mark a child for life, and my husband pointed out that kids frequently ...

Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods,...

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men an...

Sheldon S. Wolin

Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi once called the 'grey zone' of human affairs, described by the historian Christopher Browning as that foggy universe ...

Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Vincent Cassel

No matter what chains are broken, slavery is a condition of the heart.

Radically Ordinary

The ordinary can be like medicine.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant .

Osunsakin Adewale

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

Pete Townshend

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Lawrence Bender

I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.

Nicole Gulla

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Ordinary Heroes