Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for… — Mother Meera Copy Share Image
I ultimately realized we had gotten together for the music. It was such a huge thing in our lives. We were at… — Linda Eder Copy Share Image
I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I learned about forty years ago that money and things wouldn't make people happy. And this has been confirmed many times. I… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat?… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract. — Daniel Kemmis Copy Share Image
If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection… — Raul Montenegro Copy Share Image
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies.… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and… — C. J. Cherryh Copy Share Image
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out. — Billie Piper Copy Share Image
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous.… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour,… — John Smith Copy Share Image
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
