Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred,… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
Mass delusion is the result of the effort. Propaganda is one of the techniques. But it mentioned things like you create a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain. — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were,… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I can relate to anyone. I can hang out with stoners, skaters, surfers, stockbrokers, lawyers, athletes, rappers. I feel I can hang… — Barry Zito Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers,… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
