The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“In a sense nothing is commonplace, for everything exists visibly by means of light and color, and light and color are the… — David Parkhurst The Painter In Oil Copy Share Image
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature,… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell. — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
