One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent. — Jerry Lawler Copy Share Image
That's a really common trap that people in small scenes will start to rely on. They'll have all this material joking about… — Amy Miller Copy Share Image
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted… — Jack London Copy Share Image
If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the… — James Spader Copy Share Image
The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized… — John Turner Copy Share Image
Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures,… — Bill James Copy Share Image
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures....… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very… — Barret Oliver Copy Share Image
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image