Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
If an actor can emotionally bond with the viewer, then it does not matter if he is handsome or ordinary looking.
'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.
Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.
When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.
Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.
Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.
Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.
Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.