Uncommon Quotes - Page 4

• So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.

  Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

  Loss, Ordinary, World

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• Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Military, Reading, Writing

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• Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace - Angels.

  Gary Kinnaman

  Inspiring, Angel, People

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men, Bull Markets, Speculators

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• What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Army, Common Sense, Navy

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Taken, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Life, Common Sense, Common

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• On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Land, Tears

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• Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.

  Winona LaDuke

  Prayer, Struggle, Years

  Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.64, Voyageur Press (MN)

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• It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Character, Taste, Common

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• As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses.

  Bill Henson

  Girl, Horse, Boys

  "Dreamscapes and Sensory Experience – An Interview with Bill Henson". Interview with Sabine Mirlesse, www.americansuburbx.com. June 15, 2015.

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• We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dark, Simple, Light

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Medicine for Melancholy”, Spectra

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• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

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• Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.

  William L. Shirer

  Sorry, History, Evil

  William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.

  Richard Whately

  Book, Heart, Study

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.484

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• Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense.

  Theodora Goss

  Common Sense, Sometimes

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The most fully actualized people that I studied over ten years consistently pushed the envelope. These people consistently demanded far more of themselves every day than anyone else ever expected from them. These people raised their standards and committed themselves from their hearts to be the best they could be and to live a life of uncommon wonder. This is what self-mastery is all about.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Self, Years

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• What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and what you're attempting to support, it's not uncommon to think of your music and to think of the way your orchestra plays for something like Jack and Daxter where you start with- you know because it has to change tempo and intensity as the action gets more intense.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• It takes uncommon guts to stick to one style in the face of all the pressures to 'come up with something new' every six months. It is tragically easy to be stampeded into change. But golden rewards await the advertiser who has the brains to create a coherent image, and the stability to stick with it over a long period.

  David Ogilvy

  Long, Brain, Style

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• In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Dog, Hunting

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Common Sense, Genius

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Humble, Opportunity, Simple

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Common Sense, Rockets, Making Money

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• You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Heart, Simple, Heaven

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• I'm looking for uncommon people.

  Cal Stoll

  People

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