“What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey… — James Gilmour Copy Share Image
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel… — Hippolytus of Rome Copy Share Image
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators.… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and… — Jake Weber Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to… — Johnny Isakson Copy Share Image
Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and… — Erik Paulsen Copy Share Image
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image