Uncommon Quotes

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11, you know, and playing in the National Football League.

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

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.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

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

This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Loyalty is uncommon, unconditional and uncompromising. Every winning team has it.

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

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.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

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.

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.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

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

I'm looking for uncommon people.

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.

Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

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.

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!

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.