Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system.… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are… — Jordan Bridges Copy Share Image
A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller… — Georgi Parvanov Copy Share Image
America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English.… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large… — Thomas Streicher Copy Share Image
It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Christmas message itself is that God chooses common people to do the most uncommon things. No matter how common you are,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was,… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
What children and the landing of a plane most have in common is that they are best made by a line drive… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods… — Grace Meng Copy Share Image
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I don't think this is rocket science. I think we have some common interests, like dismantling our nuclear weapons, dealing with terrorism… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image