Quotes of: Ordinary-person Keyword

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Patricia Hill Collins

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Steven Spielberg

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Vladimir Putin

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Stephen Hawking

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Benazir Bhutto

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Hermann Hesse

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am n...

Interpreter of Maladies

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you wan...

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

Love was more than just a fleeting desire, or a brief glimpse into a fairy tale, or a flash of playful flirtation in her beautiful hazel eyes. It was more than infatuation with a person’s best qualities, or reluctant acceptance of their less appeal...

Between Worlds

We expect our spouses to fill voids in our lives or hearts that only God can fill. Unmet expectations reduce a journey expected to be amazing to ordinary. Unmet expectations breed hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and unresolved conflict.

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

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

Norman Spinrad

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Eric Rohmer

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Salman Rushdie

People don't follow ordinary people; they follow extraordinary people.

Enock Maregesi

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny...

C.S. Lewis

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

Emily Giffin

Harvey Pekar: Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

American Splendor

Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!

Amy Leigh Mercree

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

Bo Bennett

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

Viola Davis