One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching… — Steve Weinstein Copy Share Image
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies,… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I believe that there is no such thing as a subordinate. If the air-conditioning ceases to work in our building, then the… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and… — Mike Zimmer Copy Share Image
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of… — David Stove Copy Share Image
All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and… — Sabrina Lloyd Copy Share Image
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story,… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you… — Carly Aquilino Copy Share Image
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image