Quotes with common-place

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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
    Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • C. V. Boys There is more in a common bubble than those who have only played with them generally imagine.
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  • Brad Meltzer There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Albert Schweitzer There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.''
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bob Barr There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief...
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Napoleon There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Chief Seattle There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Thornton T. Munger There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Vince Lombardi There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Toni Morrison There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Shashi Tharoor There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ben Kingsley There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • David Viscott There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • John Glenn There is still no cure for the common birthday.
    John Glenn
    American astronaut and politician (1921 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Arleigh Burke There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
    Arleigh Burke
    American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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