Ordinary People Quotes

I hate ordinary people!

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

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

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

[Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

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.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

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

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