Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in free speech. Common Sense's motto is sanity, not censorship. But I'm over the age of 18, and… — Jim Steyer Copy Share Image
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
