Ordinary People Quotes

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

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.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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.