#ordinary people

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#been #extraordinary #extraordinary people #had #i

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#conviction #democracy #extraordinary #ordinary #ordinary people

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

#alien #been #dumb #evil #good

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. ↗

— Joseph Lelyveld

#any #before #britain #country #europe

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

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#forces #got #i #large #ordinary

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#created #extraordinary #freedom #genius #old

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#candidates #done #first #first of all #good

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. ↗

— David R. Brower

#capability #complicated #control #doing #enough