I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all are doom'd… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different… — Umberto Guidoni Copy Share Image
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no… — Lawrence Kudlow Copy Share Image
'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There… — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller… — Georgi Parvanov Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The guy behind the counter had been seriously adorable. Model-level cute. She had mentioned that, and Allan, her then boyfriend, hadn't taken… — Jana Oliver Copy Share Image
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's… — Mike deGruy Copy Share Image
The common thread of the series is that these are the books that Elephant and Piggie like to read. Elephant and Piggie… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
“It was what the gleeman had called Plain Chant, those nights beside the fire on the ride north. Stories, he said, were… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image