The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up… — John Walsh Copy Share Image
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources;… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
I have the privilege of ministering in many different streams of the church. When you do that you're never going to subscribe… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it:… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed,… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image