To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse.… — Robin Lakoff Copy Share Image
It's true, there aren't many explicit references to Canada in my book. And not many explicit references to the U.S., either. I… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much. — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
We are thankful for these and all the good things of life. We recognize that they are a part of our common… — J. S. Woodsworth Copy Share Image
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear.… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the… — Len Goodman Copy Share Image
We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense. — Wayne Brady Copy Share Image
One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and… — Lorne Rubenstein Copy Share Image
The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.'… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
We all have common emotions. And, and our experiences may not be all common but the emotions sure are. — Jeff Barry Copy Share Image
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was,… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I simply care nothing for any of your religions, as all three are fundamentally flawed, unlike the Church of Common Sense, right… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
What children and the landing of a plane most have in common is that they are best made by a line drive… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a… — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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