People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is a closed clique. They are not the best and brightest. They're not the smartest. They haven't had to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled… — George Will Copy Share Image
Fans of different races, castes, ethnicities and religions who together celebrate their diversity by uniting for a common national cause. They are… — Kumar Sangakkara Copy Share Image
There's a guy named Richard Spencer, who is the intellectual guru of the movement, according to Breitbart and he says, basically -… — David Corn Copy Share Image
It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world?… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Friends don't have to have a lot of things in common. But there's one thing friends usually do have in common -… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The relationship between the United States and Mexico goes over and beyond the relationship between two governments. This is a relationship that… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
I talked to a lot of people about what makes a good weekend, and discovered a few common threads: human connection, play,… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
But what does it mean to be on God's side? I believe it starts with focusing on the common good - not… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in free speech. Common Sense's motto is sanity, not censorship. But I'm over the age of 18, and… — Jim Steyer Copy Share Image
That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share… — Robert E. Quinn Copy Share Image
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is… — John Leo Copy Share Image
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
![“My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final revisions to my dissertation! Common sense would have said, finish the dissertation and get a good, solid academic position. But instead, I got to do something that no one else has…” quote by Theodora Goss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ee/theodora-goss-10051_academic_my-uncommon-sense-told-me-to-write-this_2627056.jpg)
