#ordinary people

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans. ↗

— Scott Walker

#because #confidence #did #extraordinary #forward

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service. ↗

— Melita Norwood

#cost #could #defeat #did #education

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

#apply #death #directly #dying #ordinary

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

— Socrates

#doing #doing good #good #had #harm

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#certain #certain things #ordinary #ordinary people #people

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. ↗

— Pam Brown

#courage #dark #ordinary #ordinary people #people

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. ↗

— Gerard Way

#heroes #make #ordinary #ordinary people #people

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. ↗

— Billy Idol

#ordinary #ordinary people #people #rock #talk

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#book #cure #ever #farmer #group

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

— Robertson Davies

#become #circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary people #more