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Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon
Me
Ruins
Disciples
Were
His
Ordinary
Them
Thick
Right
Jesus
Twisting
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz
God
Believe
Earth
Put
Ordinary
Us
Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.
Michael Leunig
Good
Morning
Reality
People
Welfare
Old
Gone
Down
Living
Earn
Increasingly
Jobs
Fraud
Good Old Days
Seeing
Proper
Cruel
Days
Come
Like
Normal
Normal People
Up
Get
Ordinary
Old Days
Social
Working
Hard
Fascists
Social Welfare
Found
Now
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Man
World
Light
Energy
Considers
Cosmic
Sees
Various
Vastly
Material
Material World
Yogi
Liquid
Vibrations
Different
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Them
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
Good
People
Sometimes
Smart
Alien
Evil
Good People
Seem
Primarily
Smart People
Unusual
How
Been
Dumb
Irrational
Ordinary
Interested
Ordinary People
Act
Natures
Why
Things
I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.
Richard McKenna
People
Money
Will
Citizen
Nation
Control
Destiny
Destroy
Direct
Like
Policy
Am
Governments
Hands
Afraid
Banks
Hold
Ordinary
Ordinary Citizen
Hollow
Create
Who
Credit
It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.
Robert Adamson
Good
You
Good Things
Stronger
Suppressed
Down
Everything
Hidden
Weaker
Seems
Bland
Repeated
Get
Endlessly
Just
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Much
Held
Things
Disruptive
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
Robert Anton Wilson
Church
Miracles
Earth
Fables
More
Sees
Nobody
Obvious
Yard
Square
Than
Ordinary
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.
Russell Banks
Art
Me
Age
People
Writing
Made
Reading
High
High Art
Classics
Particular
Like
Led
American
Taught
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Really
Twain
Who
Lives
Early
Early Age
If I'm half as good as everybody said I am, I'm far too good to be wasting time with ordinary people. But I seem to be spending my life with ordinary people, who are the best people in the world.
Stan Lee
Life
Time
Best
Good
People
World
My Life
Half
Too
Everybody
Spending
Seem
Said
Am
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Far
Who
Wasting
Wasting Time
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
T. E. Lawrence
Truth
Myself
People
Will
Few
Whatever
Say
Tell
About
Point
Results
Absurdly
Am
Been
Few People
Quite
Artistic
Ordinary
Who
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Albert Bandura
People
Extraordinarily
Appropriate
Given
Cruel
Led
Conditions
Decent
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Social
Social Conditions
Things
Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
Ann Bancroft
Fear
Will
Become
Gave
Our
Our Lives
Critics
Voice
Point
Never
Come
Reach
Look
Around
Said
Ordinary
Realize
Certain
Certain Point
Film
Lives
Things
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin
Life
You
People
No Friends
First
Politician
Numerous
Ruin
Top
Those
Rarely
Temptations
Generally
Suppose
Around
Friends
Discussed
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Profession
Many
Suffers
Second
Third
I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles Spurgeon
Life
Good
Daily
Man
Age
Fear
Fire
Too
Melt
Fine
Abound
Only
Perfection
Make
Ordinary
Which
Them
Many
Professions
Away
Daily Life
Need
Resolutions
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.
Dave Winfield
Life
You
People
Heroes
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Know
Achieved
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Ordinary Things
Things
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
David A. Bednar
Education
Experience
Men
Priesthood
Worthiness
Willingness
Given
Qualifications
Authority
Ordinary
Expertise
Ordinary Men
Ordination
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot
Quality
Genius
Men
Machine
Some
Always
Gaiety
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Disorder
Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
Donna Summer
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Some
Because
Person
Did
Just
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Ordinary Things
Things
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell
Politics
You
Yourself
Free
Draw
Embraced
Advantage
Surely
Material
Proves
Expect
Any
Cannot
Ordinary
Which
Appears
Right
Creed
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell
Love
People
Human Being
Some People
Nothing
Others
Some
More
Does
Than
Human
Being
Ordinary
Loving
Mean
Means
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Harold Feinstein
Life
Love
Saying
You
Photography
Joy
Witness
Will
Looking
Breath
Extraordinary
Way
Has-Been
Find
Seeing
Bearing
Feel
Catching
Pictures
Like
Look
Always
Am
Been
Oh
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Your
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller
Man
Hero
Action
Immense
Involved
Difference
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Acts
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan
Myself
Imagination
Never
Just
Ordinary
Believed
Player
Imagined
I see my task as serving the majority of people. The question is, how do you find out what they want, how best to serve them? My answer is to stay close to ordinary people because, at heart, I am one of them.
Ingvar Kamprad
Best
You
Heart
People
Out
Find
Stay
See
Majority
Because
Answer
How
Am
Question
Close
Task
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Them
Serve
Serving
I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.
John Hughes
Me
You
Extraordinary
Everyman
Simplest
Like
Most
Go
Expect
Person
Happen
Not Interested
Ordinary
Story
Interest
Interested
Ordinary Things
Things
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