Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
You have a very common disease if you are sick of high doctor fees. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common! — Madeline Zima Copy Share Image
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are, and the one we have in common — Jacques Lecoq Copy Share Image
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government.… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is… — Mike Hebert Copy Share Image
A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel.… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I've seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
