Quotes of: Ordinary-person Keyword

And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus did, they get in trouble. Once we are actually friends with the folks in struggle, we start to ask why...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

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

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Jake Gyllenhaal

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

Jessica Szohr

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Benedict Cumberbatch

My love can only occupy one person at a time. I try for that person to not be me.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.

The Midnight Dancers

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Dennis Prager

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treated with respect. Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities; in every other country, they...

James Lankford

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

Eric Braeden

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.

The Common Reader

The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.

The Fourth Way

It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.

Nat Wolff

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell

Or is identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

Ancillary Justice

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.

The Abolition of Man

Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen

Angel of Fire: Book One of Zach's Story

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.

Holy war

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

Infants of the Spring

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

Radically Ordinary