Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was… — Peter Ueberroth Copy Share Image
People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow,… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
We do know from our intelligence community that Russia had a design to discredit the U.S. elections, and took sides in favor… — Ben Cardin Copy Share Image
Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
I was pretty much a single-father for most of my daughter India's life. Looking back, were there things I could've done better?… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
“Either ‘the group’ is superior or the individual is superior. Marxism, socialism, fascism, and pure democracy are all forms that give power… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences:… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything… — David Novak Copy Share Image
On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth -… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is easier to understand that even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behavior… — Virginia Axline Copy Share Image
I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
What I like about the Pleiadians is that they work and meet each person where they are in their own evolution. Every… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step,… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if… — Mark Hulbert Copy Share Image
A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for… — Herbert Baxter Adams Copy Share Image
We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and… — George David Birkhoff Copy Share Image
Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image