Quotes of: Ordinary-situations Keyword

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Charles Francis Richter

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

William John Wills

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

Walter Lord

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordina...

Nick Cave

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Jean Paul

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Cynthia McKinney

A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, "People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't ne...

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

Brian Dennehy

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

Vikas Swarup

We all have heard about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. They act courageously or responsibly, and their efforts are described as if they opted to act that way on the spur of the moment... I believe many people in thos...

Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Status Anxiety

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Daryn Kagan

As he drove away, I began to think that what kept us together was perhaps not even our romance with an imaginary France. That was just a veneer, an illusion. Rather, it was our desperate inability to lead ordinary lives with ordinary people anywhere-...

Harvard Square

The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always height...

Zeljko Ivanek

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he tak...

Kiefer Sutherland

Don't worry if people call you ordinary -- only if you are ordinary.

Spanish

Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion

Sivaprakash Sidhu

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

Amadeus

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Aleister Crowley

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Edmund Hillary