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
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I'm a common law judge. I believe in deciding every case on its facts, not on a legal philosophy. And I believe… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions. — Mark Heard Copy Share Image
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet… — Randall Jarrell 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
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man, — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they… — Anna Maxted Copy Share Image
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. — William Hague Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of belief when it comes to fulfilling your dreams. I can say with no hesitation that every person… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Americans will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will deal fairly with everyone. We will… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image