The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of… — Felix Frankfurter 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
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant… — Judith Hoag Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann 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
Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world… — Lucy Powell 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
There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
