Quotes of: Ordinary-person Keyword

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

Viktor Vekselberg

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous...

The Integration of the Personality

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison...

Emily Thorne

Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it’s from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the...

Anuj Somany

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

...whose number one rule in life is: ignore all the ordinary people.

Four Secrets

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.

Ulysses

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life

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

Henry Miller

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

Oliver Gaspirtz

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Halsey

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

Charles Krauthammer

Joan Clarke: I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

The Imitation Game

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Charles C. Mann

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.

Amit Kalantri

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

Amit Kalantri

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.

Love

There is nowhere morning does not go.

Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

I love Nigerians becouse they're extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.

Hamzatribah