Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest. — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither. — Steve McVey Copy Share Image
Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests. — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. …… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads… — David Buss Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
