One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?
To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.
I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary.
The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones.
The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.
Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.
Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.
I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.
I've always been a super regular guy.
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
