Quotes About Ordinary People

#1. Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.

Ian Kiernan

#2. When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

Cornel West

#3. We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

Carol S. Dweck

#4. Change comes from dedicated, ordinary people, in the trenches, serving a cause greater than self.

Linda Bender

#5. The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

Alan Keyes

#6. Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Patricia Hill Collins

#7. You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. The final result wouldn't be decided by the presidents or within the mighty kingdoms or the great capitals of the world. It was the ordinary people that had the power to save the world.

Chris Stewart

#9. The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

Barton Gellman

#10. He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

Bernie Sanders

#12. Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Theodore Levitt

#13. Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

Bruce Wilkinson

#14. There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Gavin Bryars

#15. The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.

Andrew Van Der Bijl

#16. Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

Deepak Chopra

#17. 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.

Garry Kasparov

#18. Words can launch us. We don't need to be a dean to say words that change everything for someone. Instead, God made it so that ordinary people like you and me can launch each other.

Bob Goff

#19. Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Tony Blair

#20. This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

Nigel Farage

#21. The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

K. Patricia Cross

#22. God does extraordinary things with ordinary people.

Kimberly M. Hartfield

#23. Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

Daniel Keyes

#24. A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives ...

Jonathan Kozol

#25. You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Dave Winfield

#26. There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Neal Shusterman

#27. The moral narcissist's extreme humility masked a dreadful pride. Ordinary people could accept that they had faults; the moral narcissist could not.

Larissa MacFarquhar

#28. If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.

A.J. Beirens

#29. The greatest things in life are usually accomplished by ordinary people who want to do extraordinary things.

Christine E. McLean

#30. I could be with Ana, helping her pack all her shit, then going out for pizza with her and Kate and Elliot - or whatever ordinary people do.

E.L. James

#31. I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women.

Susan Isaacs

#32. There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

C.S. Lewis

#33. As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.

Terry Teachout

#34. Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

Rick Warren

#35. Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

Scott Walker

#36. Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

Ervin Staub

#37. I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.

Thomas Sowell

#38. We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.

Kenji Miyazawa

#39. Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.

Tim Winton

#40. And that was true too, that was what the Culverts were like: crucified by their shyness and at the same time contemptuous of the world of ordinary people they couldn't talk to.

Tessa Hadley

#41. I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

Walt Disney

#42. A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians..

Garry Kasparov

#43. Gypsies make difficult friends for ordinary people, and he was seething of a gypsy.

Robert James Waller

#44. You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are!

Joyce Carol Oates

#45. What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes ...

Joy Williams

#46. When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Brian Houston

#47. I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Leonard Baskin

#48. Live in harmony with each other. Don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don't think you know it all! - Romans 12:16

Gary Chapman

#49. It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Ken Livingstone

#50. Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

Ted Naifeh

#51. Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#52. Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg. - Henrik Vanger

Stieg Larsson

#53. True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

John Ortberg

#54. Love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

Anita Shreve

#55. By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#56. Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

Ai Weiwei

#57. Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Philip Zimbardo

#58. You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.

Vernor Vinge

#59. It's a quiet revolution begun by ordinary people with the stuff of our daily lives.

Bill McKibben

#60. Studies show that when ordinary people do something wrong - break a promise, commit a murder - they usually fold it into a narrative that denies or at least diminishes their guilt.

Jonathan Gottschall

#61. 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.

Hassan Blasim

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

Anne Frank

#63. I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

Bryan Burrough

#64. 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

#65. Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

Neil Gershenfeld

#66. The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

Bruce Catton

#67. Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people as much as the artist. But they do not see it because they are not trying to shed light on it.

Marcel Proust

#68. Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.

Allan Boesak

#69. Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

Thomas Sowell

#70. One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

C.S. Lewis

#71. My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

Kenneth Branagh

#72. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Gerard Way

#73. Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

Bo Bennett

#74. Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.

Antonio Guterres

#75. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Michelle Malkin

#76. This book attempts to
record a journey to restoration that applies to ordinary people like you and I. It is a shot towards healing. A step headed for a new consciousness. It emerges from a moment in time where all seems lost.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#77. If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

Amit Goswami

#78. The Wood did strange things to humans, especially humans who had a distant touch of the fae within. It turned them from ordinary people into mad hermits, cannibals who ate children thinking they were made of gingerbread, and people who swore they had been asleep for one hundred years.

Kate Danley

#79. It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

Helen Clark

#80. September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

Geraldine Brooks

#81. Ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

Richard Goldman

#82. We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

John Legend

#83. 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.

Avi Lewis

#84. Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

Meg Ryan

#85. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

Polly Horvath

#86. We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

Wadah Khanfar

#87. All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.

Huangbo Xiyun

#88. Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

Robin Sharma

#89. The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

Tariq Ramadan

#90. I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

Barbara Demick

#91. David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

Jonathan Yardley

#92. The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

Marcia Gay Harden

#93. Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Brian Tracy

#94. I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and was living out of a suitcase, staying with friends. I'd just finished filming my first movie, 'Ordinary People,' but I didn't know whether acting was what I wanted to do with my life.

Timothy Hutton

#95. Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Aleister Crowley

#96. The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

Joseph Addison

#97. Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people.

Jeffrey Fry

#98. 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

#99. The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Charles De Gaulle

#100. Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Billy Idol