Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive… — Robert Sirico 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
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Islamic terrorism is not common crime but an act of war. Jihad is war. For the Jihadi it is a war; we… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted… — John Hench Copy Share Image