It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'... — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea… — William Morris Copy Share Image
AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy. — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours… — Dale E. Turner Copy Share Image
We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
What do Harley-Davidson, LEGO, and Apple have in common? They're all based on communities. — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Sex and graduation night is a rather common thing in our culture, as a celebration of turning 18 and getting out of… — George Harrar Copy Share Image
…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals, — Thierry Mugler Copy Share Image
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much.… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're… — Richard Petty Copy Share Image
Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
