Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life. — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Our challenge, our opportunity is to pass common-sense solutions ... that repeal ObamaCare and replace it with patient-centered reforms that will help… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much.… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic… — Ray Lyman Wilbur Copy Share Image
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants. — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
