Top 316 Uncommon Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Filthy abortion clinics are not uncommon, but finding out about health violations at each clinic is no easy task.
Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history.
Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.
When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
How many times have you seen me run into the box with the ball, dribbling past players? It's uncommon because it's not my game; it's not my thing.
It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.
Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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.
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.
It's an uncommon phenomenon, but Mahesh's popularity has never been dictated by the success of his films.
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
It's not so uncommon for me to get so wrapped up in a song that I cry several times when I sing them. That's the difference between my music and some of the other folks.
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.
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.
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
It's extremely uncommon in sports to retire and have a show about you within eight months of retiring.
It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
It is not uncommon for angels to take corporeal form, to appear before us on earth as people with names and credentials.
Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.
For five albums, I would create an image of someone that wasn't true to who they were. I'd be in love with an idea. It's not an uncommon problem.
Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.
To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.
The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.
The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
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!
It's not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways - Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did - and it often happens for the better.
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.
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
God does uncommon things through common people in common places.
Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.
It is not uncommon to use a towel in afternoon matches, particularly in a place like Mohali in the month of April-May.
Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.
It's not uncommon to have at least one friend that you used to mess with, and it didn't work out. But still, there's mad love there.
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
