Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“I try to make myself realize that I have learned the difference between right and wrong. That there is such a thing… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“Personally, I am far from convinced that the British system is suited to India. The parliamentary democracy we have adopted involves the… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Listen, Stavrogin: to level the mountains is a good idea, not a ridiculous one. I'm for Shigalyov! No need for education, enough… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators.… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
“A late arrival had the impression of lots of loud people unnecessarily grouped within a smoke-blue space between two mirrors gorged with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ. — Kyle Petty Copy Share Image
There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Burnout is very real. I see it in my practice on a daily basis. Men and women from every age and walk… — Joe Ide Copy Share Image
I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“The office was a treasure trove for those who delighted in the macabre. It was the Smithsonian of the Lowest Common Denominator.… — Kenneth C. Johnson Copy Share Image
I secretly hate worship music, as it's it weak and predictable, with lyrics designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator -… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today it's fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about… — Arthur Levitt Jr Copy Share Image
“The choices, as often noted, were less than ideal. Hillary Clinton, the longtime fixture of the Boomer establishment, viewed her nomination in… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
A big reason why I fell in love with Jenna was how much she cherishes her family. And my family means the… — Valentin Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
