The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the… — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind… — John Hench Copy Share Image
We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Night terrors are in deep sleep, and they're more common in kids, as are nightmares, but what happens in a night terror… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that there's been a relatively recent tendency in the media to see prostitutes as victims and johns as… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response.… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam,… — Kaspar Hauser Copy Share Image
Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I think one thing most of faiths have in common is they all realize that everything manifests from one [god]. That's whether… — RZA Copy Share Image
The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
There is a sense of feeling larger than your own life when you're in some common mission together. You have to hope… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image