If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic. — Graca Machel Copy Share Image
The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it… — Pope Leo XII Copy Share Image
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is a common… — Rickie Fowler Copy Share Image
When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery. — Matthew Syed Copy Share Image
Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions… — George Kohlrieser Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. — Robert Taft Copy Share Image
Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual,… — Jamilah Lemieux Copy Share Image
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power… — John Berger Copy Share Image