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
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign… — Neil Young Copy Share Image