Ordinary Person Quotes

• Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Encouraging, Not Giving Up

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• I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Blessed, Opportunity, Today

  "Debating The First Latina Supreme Court Nominee". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• I am an ordinary person.

  Frances McDormand

  Ordinary, Persons

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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• I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Ordinary, Committed, Persons

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• I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Ordinary, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ordinary, Stories, Persons

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• It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Ordinary, Alternatives

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• There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Children, Believe

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

  Peter Deunov

  Extraordinary Person, Pursue, Persons

  Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.113, Health Communications, Inc.

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• One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

  Blaise Pascal

  Talking, Judging, Ordinary

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Land, House

  George Orwell (2004). “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.83, Penguin UK

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Gratitude, Kings, Ignorance

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• For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

  Jody Williams

  Extraordinary Person, Differences, Titles

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• A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Extraordinary Person, Trying, World

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• The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

  Henry Blackaby

  Ordinary, Truth Is, Dedicated

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby, Claude V. King (2008). “Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God”, p.47, B&H Publishing Group

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• I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Ordinary, Common, Realizing

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• It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

  George Will

  Wise, Positive Thinking, Ordinary

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Sound, Ordinary

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• Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

  Alexander Theroux

  Artist, Men, Differences

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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  Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

  Lou Holtz

  Preparation, Ordinary, Doe

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• There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.

  Shlomo Carlebach

  Real, Ordinary, Three

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• Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Average, Stupidity, Politics

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• An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.

  Dick Vitale

  Dream, Nice, Pride

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• Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the non-existent, non-realizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared to a Utopia, will pale in comparison. But for the ordinary person, capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any system yet devised to deal with our everyday needs and desires.

  Walter E. Williams

  Miracle, Everyday, Desire

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