we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding… — Daniel Horan Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones. — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation,… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I found it really astonishing that undocumented migrants were kidnapped so routinely, that it was such a commonplace part of the journey… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time.… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
