Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator. — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas). — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read 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
In Russia, we are ready to listen to our partners, ready to listen to appraisals and assessments when it is done in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States.… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
