When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I've taken people and fired them over a period of a year. I've fired them over a period of a month. I've… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature. — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny.… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the… — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
You may wonder: how do I overcome the common 'Cute/Insane Conundrum,' as it occurs in men ... Yes, it's a fact -… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man. — Diosdado Macapagal Copy Share Image
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
