My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to… — Joe Barton Copy Share Image
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think we're at a moment in history where all the rules are out the window; it's not about "Here's a single,… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for your next prostate exam. That's just a… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that… — Tia Mowry Copy Share Image
This idea of artistry, this idea of creativity... Ultimately, it has to be just real talk. We have to give a common… — Eli Russell Linnetz Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Miscarrying is a horrible painful event. That just felt like something that needed to be addressed. I am by no means prescribing… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think what is happening is that Houthis and the Iranians have common interests, but there's very little good journalism that's been… — Safa Al Ahmad Copy Share Image
The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think everyone's kind of just whistling and pretending everything's OK. At the heart of this is the cover-up, and the misleading… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image