Nothing is so common as the desire to be remarkable.
The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.
No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each othe...
When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used any sort of common sense whatsoever. It was a ti...
Physics, my friend, is a narrow path drawn across a gulf that the human imagination cannot grasp. It is a set of answers to certain questions that we put to the world, and the world supplies the answers on the condition that we will not then ask it o...
To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle...
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral valu...
All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence l...
democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men an...
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the...
Stanley Kowalski: Listen, baby, when we first met - you and me - you thought I was common. Well, how right you was. I was common as dirt. You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you down off them columns, and you loved i...
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.
The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt:
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
