When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed.… — Canvass White Copy Share Image
The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much… — Ed Benguiat Copy Share Image
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused… — Marianne Thieme Copy Share Image
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It's common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to… — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later,… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes.The trolls.Back. With me. Cannot form.Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah,so not… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I don't take left-right on any of my positions. I take common sense and so again, if alternative energy saves money, it… — Christopher Martenson Copy Share Image
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image