I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.
Good writing just isn't that common.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Jan: What is it worth if we are seen as common burglars?
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.
What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people...
December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of this year, then comes a new one. Then, what? No one knows. -- Diary of Bertha Kate Gaddis who passed away 6 months later, age 78, We...
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling re...
In serving as a pastor for over thirty years, I have seen some remarkable transformations and I’ve seen some big disappointments. I have two observations. First, where there has been lasting change, the common factor, in every case, is that the Wor...
After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because it has become gradually harder and harder to believe that it is actually going to happen. Every February since 1940 I have found myself thinking that ...
Words cannot express my disappointment that I must pass on the invitation to once again witness your gelatinous buttocks swaying as you try to climb a greased pole naked in search of athletic glory. Sadly, the last occasion on which I witnessed this ...
It is undoubtedly true that religion is often socially conservative. By binding a people together under a shared God, a common cosmology and a common morality, religion creates order and stability and its rituals create social cohesio...n. By promisi...
