Gewöhnlicher Mann / Ordinary Man Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Gewöhnlicher Mann / Ordinary Man:

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. Aleister Crowley

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

George Steiner

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

Erich Fromm

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

George Orwell

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.

Emilio Estevez

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Graham Greene

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Austin O'Malley

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Loren Eiseley

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Henry Miller

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Augustine Birrell

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Pope Francis

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

Brian Dennehy

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