There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious… — Seth Copy Share Image
For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success… — Bob Wise Copy Share Image
Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle… — Lidiya Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
If you find common subjects or interests with a prospect, you can establish a business friendship. Ask about a diploma or picture.… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined… — Strabo Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution…The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant… — Carol Kent Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss 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
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
