Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and… — Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute,… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use… — E.J. Bonilla Copy Share Image
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt 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
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of… — Hugh McCulloch Copy Share Image
You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
What Barack Obama calls bipartisanship is not moving to the right, but finding where people who consider themselves conservatives share these fundamental… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts 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
One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive… — Joel Dorman Steele Copy Share Image
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
