The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain. — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man. — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use… — Richard Madeley Copy Share Image
Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,. — Li Zhaoxing Copy Share Image
Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image