Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What… — Lola Ridge Copy Share Image
Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Girl Scouts offered a wonderful group of girls where common concerns and interests could come together. We could learn, be challenged, and… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme,… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
'Uff da,' for the unenlightened, is Norwegian for 'oy vey' and is a common expression in Minnesotese. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me… — Gladys Aylward Copy Share Image
I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic… — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school… — Bjork Copy Share Image
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Love for others and respect for their rights and their human dignity, irrespective of who or what they are, no matter what… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
