Ordinary Quotes

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

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.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

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.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

I am an ordinary person.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.