I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy,… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have… — Jan de Hartog Copy Share Image
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Two ( or more) people come together and they agree that they should be together for a common purpose and that purpose… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
