Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Even though Wisconsin is the only place I want to be, there was a time when everything felt like it was imploding… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Today we take it for granted that the Bible is in our language. We forget that the Bible used to not be… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I hope that we will also take seriously the necessity of building alternative parties, and do that work in our communities of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
