The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble. — Gabrielle Dennis Copy Share Image
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they… — Horace Copy Share Image
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve… — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
I think by the next generation either we'll have a lot of idiots who are just completely immersed in media and corporatized… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal;… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion,… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest,… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them.… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't.… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war. — Li Zhaoxing Copy Share Image
