It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw… — Walter Legge Copy Share Image
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation — Saladin Copy Share Image
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services… — Andrew Robb Copy Share Image
The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know -… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you… — Victoria Osteen Copy Share Image
