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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too! -- Ernie J Zelinski
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. -- Mike Huckabee
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. -- Boris Pasternak
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things. -- Jim Valvano
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
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. -- Socrates
[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. -- Robert Redford
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. -- Socrates
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? -- Philip Zimbardo
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That 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. -- Milton Friedman
I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable. -- Chris Evans
We meet no ordinary people in our lives. -- C. S. Lewis
Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people. -- Mike Murdock
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. -- C. S. Lewis
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. -- Judith Guest
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. -- Ben Stein
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. -- Tracy Chapman
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. -- C. S. Lewis
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. -- C. S. Lewis
Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. -- David A. Bednar
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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. -- Rachael Taylor
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness. -- Judith Guest
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. -- C. S. Lewis
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
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges. -- Michael Josephson
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways. -- Mother Teresa
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. -- Gerard Way
Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires. -- Bo Bennett
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. -- Dave Winfield
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. -- Benazir Bhutto
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. -- Hermann Hesse
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. -- Viola Davis
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
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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
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. -- Tracy Kidder
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
People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. -- Paul Watson
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people. -- Stephen Hawking
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
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. -- Stephen King
I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change. -- Jody Williams
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. -- Marc Faber
I hate ordinary people! -- Louisa May Alcott
Ordinary people have extraordinary love. -- Clay Walker
People want you to be ordinary. -- Robert Crais
Ordinary people can bring about change. -- Oprah Winfrey
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. -- Patricia Stephens Due
The Constitution was made for ordinary people. -- Pat Robertson
Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. -- Tom Hooper
Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life. -- Frank Fools Crow
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things! -- Jim Valvano
Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things. -- Neal Shusterman
When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen. -- Brian Houston
Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education. -- Robin Sharma
...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things. -- Richard Goldman
Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. -- Michael Gerber
People don't follow ordinary people; they follow extraordinary people. -- Enock Maregesi
The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage. -- Robin Sharma
love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people. -- Anita Shreve
Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people. -- David Platt
The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people. -- Paulo Coelho
Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people. -- Patricia Hill Collins
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. -- Billy Idol
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world. -- Erica Jong
Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents. -- Jean Kerr
Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires. -- Bo Bennett
The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people. -- Paulo Coelho
Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage. -- Enoch L. Johnson
Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. -- Robin Sharma
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. -- Haruki Murakami
Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. -- Theodore Levitt
Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus. -- Jon Gordon
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. -- Roger von Oech
Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. -- Brian Tracy
I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination. -- Zig Ziglar
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. -- Barack Obama
We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go. -- John Legend
I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance. -- Charles Bukowski
Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me! -- Bruce Wilkinson
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism. -- Margaret Thatcher
Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family. -- Lee Byung-hun
Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary. -- Thomas Leonard
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. -- Norman Spinrad
The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! -- Twiggy
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. -- Cornel West
We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world. -- John C. Maxwell
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people. -- Sam Walton
Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers. -- Ray Johnson
Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. -- Julian Barbour
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. -- Steven Spielberg
Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple. -- Robert G. Allen
The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones. -- Robin Sharma
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. -- Elon Musk
The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. -- Tyler Perry
Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary. -- Linji Yixuan
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water. -- Bob Goff
People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics, -- Jason Lezak
Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion -- Sivaprakash Sidhu
Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. -- Anne Frank
Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people. -- Jack Nance
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. -- Walter Lord
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. -- George Orwell
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. -- Michael Gerber
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. -- G. M. Trevelyan
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit -- Stephen Leacock
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. -- Erik Naggum
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. -- Gavin Bryars
I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you. -- Anne Rice
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. -- Pam Brown
I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. -- Jeanette Winterson
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. -- Brian Pinkerton

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